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- adjective Having
outgrown thesize of the pot, such that itsroots have no more room to grow.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The criminal grew big while the law, pot-bound in its traditional swathings, was unable to keep pace with him.
The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006
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It prefers the light and likes moist soil and being pot-bound.
How To Avoid Housework PAULA JHUNG 1995
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It prefers the light and likes moist soil and being pot-bound.
How To Avoid Housework PAULA JHUNG 1995
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It prefers the light and likes moist soil and being pot-bound.
How To Avoid Housework PAULA JHUNG 1995
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When pot-bound, the plants flower most freely, and it is not necessary to repot large specimens more often than about once every three years.
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The root is also subject to the same malformation, the inducing cause being usually some obstruction to downward growth, as when a plant has been grown in a small pot, and becomes, as gardeners say, pot-bound.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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The roots must not be allowed to become pot-bound.
The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Sutton and Sons
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And that child who is born to sorrow and sordid care, pot-bound from its mother's womb by encircling conditions that none single-handed can break, is wronged and sinned against by us all most foully.
The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel John Maurice Miller
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All Petunias are impatient of being pot-bound, and this applies especially to the double varieties.
The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Sutton and Sons
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The bulbs flower more freely when somewhat pot-bound.
The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Sutton and Sons
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