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Definition of Potbound
1. Adjective. (of a potted plant) grown too large for its container resulting in matting or tangling of the roots.
Definition of Potbound
1. Adjective. (alternative form of pot-bound) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Potbound
1. having grown too large for its container [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Potbound
Literary usage of Potbound
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life and Light for Woman by Woman's Board of Missions (1892)
"The plant has not room for its energies ; it is potbound. ... Now, will you follow
me while I speak of "potbound missionaries"? A girl in the fresh vigor of ..."
2. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen (1875)
"Other foliage plants require repotting, and it is not well to allow them to become
potbound ; most of the foliage plante adapted to stove culture require to ..."
3. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"As soon as the pots are fairly well filled with roots (though they must not become
potbound), they should be shifted on into larger sizes until they reach a ..."
4. Baptist Missionary Magazine by American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (1899)
"Their minds have been as potbound as a dwarf peach-tree, as cramped as their
women's small feet. The people now understand the value of Christian and ..."
5. The California Fruits and how to Grow Them by Edward James Wickson (1914)
"The seeds may be started in small pots, and shifted before they become potbound
into small redwood boxes. As the plants attain the size of a lead pencil and ..."
6. An Introduction to Bacterial Diseases of Plants by Erwin Frink Smith (1920)
"oculated plants to become potbound? Can you cause general infection by stem
inoculations of half-grown plants? Inoculate in the middle of internodes and ..."
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