POTBOUND

potbound, rootbound

(adjective) (of a potted plant) grown too large for its container resulting in matting or tangling of the roots

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Adjective

potbound (comparative more potbound, superlative most potbound)

Alternative form of pot-bound

Source: Wiktionary



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7 June 2025

PARSEC

(noun) a unit of astronomical length based on the distance from Earth at which stellar parallax is 1 second of arc; equivalent to 3.262 light years


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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