Usually means: Roots confined, unable to grow.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. pot-bound: Merriam-Webster
  2. pot-bound: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pot-bound, pot-bound: Collins English Dictionary
  4. pot-bound: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. pot-bound: Wiktionary
  6. pot-bound: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. Pot-bound: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. pot-bound: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. pot-bound: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. GreenWeb Gardening Glossary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (pot-bound)

adjective:  (of a potted plant) Having outgrown the size of the pot, such that its roots have no more room to grow.

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