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What does pot-bound mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word pot-bound? Here's what it means.

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  1. (potted) Having outgrown the size of the pot, such that its roots have no more room to grow.
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Marcus is the kind of man who notices a pot-bound rose bush growing out of an old wine jar outside his military quarters.
In other words: instead of starting with an intact root system, the pot-bound plant has to make do with a mutilated and defective root system.
It was felt by our country that the United States must own the west coast or be pot-bound later on.
Holiday cacti like to be slightly pot-bound and are usually repotted every 3 or 4 years.
That your children shall be scoffed at by the alien as useless outside their own pot-bound provinces.
If the plant has been in the container all season, you can bet it's pot-bound.

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