flowerpot

name

1. A locality in Kingborough council area, south eastern Tasmania, Australia.

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree English flower Proto-Germanic *puttaz Old English pott Proto-Germanic *puttaz Frankish *pottder. Vulgar Latin pottum Old French potbor. Middle English pot English pot English flowerpot From flower + pot.

1. A pot filled with soil in which plants are grown.

   “O Laurinella! little doſt thou wot How fraile a flower thou doſt ſo highly prize: Beauty's the flower, but love the flower-pot That muſt preſerve it, els it quickly dyes.”

   “I hope you will think kindly of my whitened bones, and never have anything more to do with Greek writing on flower-pots, sir, if I may make so bold as to say so.”