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Definition of Pothos
1. Noun. Any of various tropical lianas of the genus Scindapsus.
2. Noun. Evergreen liana widely cultivated for its variegated foliage.
Group relationships: Epipremnum, Genus Epipremnum
Generic synonyms: Liana
Definition of Pothos
1. Noun. (countable botany) ''Epipremnum aureum'', a vine widely cultivated as a houseplant, once classified in the genus ''Pothos''. ¹
2. Noun. (uncountable botany) A genus of plants consisting of subtropical and tropical, climbing, flowering vines, indigenous to the environs of the Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pothos
1. a climbing plant with glossy variegated leaves [n POTHOS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pothos
Literary usage of Pothos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Or, Flower-garden Displayed: In which the Most by John Sims (1805)
"STINKING pothos, or ... of pothos as far as regards the flower, the berries we
have not had an opportunity of feeing ; yet MICHAUX queries if it may not be ..."
2. The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica: A Record of the Positive Effects of by Timothy Field Allen (1878)
"pothos. Symplocarpus foetidus, Salisb. ... foetidus, Bigelow; pothos foetidus).
Natural order, Arace*. Common name. Skunk-cabbage. ..."
3. New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anschutz (1917)
"That it must be persisted in for a long time. pothos NATURAL ... These are the
flowers of pothos appearing some tune before the leaves, and when divested of ..."
4. A Clinical materia medica by Ernest Albert Farrington (1897)
"pothos foetida [ Balsam of Peru. Acorus [ Diffenbachia ARUM TRIPHYLLUM.
The so-called "Jack in the pulpit ..."
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