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windowbox

windowbox is the alternative form of window box.

Meaning of window box

Noun

window box (plural window boxes)

  1. A narrow box filled with earth, placed on a windowsill and used for growing plants.
    • As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants.2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848, archived from the original on 10 Aug 2020
  2. One of the hollows in the sides of a window frame for the weights which counterbalance a lifting sash.

Forms of windowbox

pluralwindowboxes

Questions about windowbox

What is windowbox the alternative form of?
Windowbox is the alternative form of window box.

Words near windowbox in the dictionary

  1. window-sill
  2. window-sills
  3. window-washer
  4. window-washers
  5. windowable
  6. windowbox
  7. windowboxes
  8. windowdress
  9. windowed
  10. windowed down
  11. windowed out

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Adapted from Wiktionary: windowbox (page history and authors); window box (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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