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  • noun Plural form of potplant.

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Examples

  • If Odysseus Elytis, the author of The Concert of Hyacinths, had wished to use that flower as one of the analogies between environment and perception that are an essential part of his cultural outlook, he could have said that our potplants are a west-European rationalization of something which in his country grows wild, thereby acquiring its everlasting beauty.

    Nobel Prize in Literature 1979 - Presentation Speech 1979

  • Thus, 'potplants' has three constituents: two root morphemes ( 'pot' and 'plant') and a suffix (the plural morpheme 's'), making the word a three morpheme cluster.

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  • Thus, 'potplants' has three constituents: two root morphemes ( 'pot' and 'plant') and a suffix (the plural morpheme 's'), making the word a three morpheme cluster.

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  • 'potplants' (distal), whereas 'This' and 'these' would imply a 'proximal' relationship to the referents.

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  • 'potplants' (distal), whereas 'This' and 'these' would imply a 'proximal' relationship to the referents.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows geniusroi 2010

  • The liquid by product is used to feed luscious potplants and window sill herb gardens and the solid waste in added to any nieghbourhood garden that can be found.

    No More Free Plastic Bags in Israel | Inhabitat 2008

  • In fact that's exactly what we have some various disgusting characters doing, right into the potplants.

    is Von 2010

  • The publication follows months of stories about Labour waste as new ministers crawled through the books and highlighted the potplants, designer sofas and costly contracts their predecessors wasted money on.

    Publishing the Whitehall accounts could be a great leap forward - or a folly Polly Curtis 2010

  • My potplants always die within two months of me taking ownership of them.

    Archive 2007-02-01 StyleyGeek 2007

  • My potplants always die within two months of me taking ownership of them.

    10 weird things about me StyleyGeek 2007

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