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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.

Adjective
  1. (potted) Having outgrown the size of the pot, such that its roots have no more room to grow.
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That your children shall be scoffed at by the alien as useless outside their own pot-bound provinces.
The loss of foliage may come from lack of moisture in the soil, or the roots of the plant may be pot-bound.
Holiday cacti like to be slightly pot-bound and are usually repotted every 3 or 4 years.
When you have to do this you usually find that the plant has been pot-bound, and is a mass of fibrous roots.
Marcus is the kind of man who notices a pot-bound rose bush growing out of an old wine jar outside his military quarters.
It was felt by our country that the United States must own the west coast or be pot-bound later on.

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