Window box

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    a long narrow box for growing plants on a windowsill wordnet
  3. 3
    One of the hollows in the sides of a window frame for the weights which counterbalance a lifting sash.

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"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."