Definition of Pot plant

1. Noun. A plant suitable for growing in a flowerpot (especially indoors).


Definition of Pot plant

1. Noun. A houseplant ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pot Plant

pot limit
pot liquor
pot lives
pot luck
pot lucks
pot man
pot marigold
pot marigolds
pot marjoram
pot men
pot metal
pot mod
pot odds
pot pie
pot pies
pot plant
pot pourri
pot roast
pot scrubber
pot scrubber brush
pot scrubber brushes
pot scrubbers
pot shot
pot shots
pot still
pot stills
pot stirrer
potabilities
potability
potabilization

Literary usage of Pot plant

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Greenhouse Management: A Manual for Florists and Flower Lovers on the by Levi Rawson Taft (1898)
"When the plants have formed their first true leaves they should be transplanted to about two by six inches, or, if in drills, FIG. 70. pot plant ..."

2. Pot-pourri from a Surrey Garden by Maria Theresa Earle, Constance Lytton (1898)
"It makes a most excellent pot-plant, young or old, for a room at all times of the year. ... It is a delightful winter pot-plant in all its sizes. ..."

3. The Ivy, a Monograph: Comprising the History, Uses, Characteristics, and by Shirley Hibberd (1872)
"... make a showy pot-plant, though in any case pleasing and peculiar, on account of the prevailing faint orange tint. Frontispiece, right hand. Minima. ..."

4. Floral Decorations for the Dwelling House: A Practical Guide to the Home by Annie Hassard (1876)
"With the exception of those who have seen suitable plants put gi pot plant through table. through a table, no one can have an idea of the elegant effect ..."

5. The Home Florist: A Treatise on the Cultivation, Management and Adaptability by Elias A. Long (1874)
"An upright growing pot plant of free growth, crowned with rosy pink spikes of flowers nearly the whole year. They are easily cultivated in any soil, ..."

6. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1901)
"Valuable in the greenhouse or for the border. As a pot-plant it makes a fine bush and bears fls. almost continuously. It can be used as a bedding 1490. ..."

7. The Gardens' Bulletin, Singapore by Botanic Gardens (Singapore (1907)
"is equally good as a pot plant and several ornamental forms of this ... This has as yet been only cultivated as a pot plant, as which it is very attractive. ..."

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