window box en · NOUN
Meanings
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A narrow box filled with earth, placed on a windowsill and used for growing plants.
As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants.
2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848, archived from the original on 10 Aug 2020:
- One of the hollows in the sides of a window frame for the weights which counterbalance a lifting sash.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| windowbox | alternative | lexicographic | |
| window boxes | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Synonyms
flower box · herb box · planter
Translations (3)
de Blumenkasten (flower box) · fo blómukassi (flower box) · sv blomlåda (flower box)