pot plant

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pot plant (plural pot plants)

  1. (UK, Australia, New Zealand) A plant growing in a flowerpot; a houseplant.
    • 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 60:
      Pot-plants on spindle-legged stands lurked in wait for an incautious gesture.
    • 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 494:
      Then there was the sound of transport, too heavy a sound for a private car, and headlights showed up the withered pot-plants in Crabbe's porch.
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pot plant (plural pot plants)

  1. (US) A marijuana plant.

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