potplantとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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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, →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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