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window box

noun window boxes · windowbox

A narrow box filled with earth, placed on a windowsill and used for growing plants. As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants.
Similar: flower box, herb box, planter
One of the hollows in the sides of a window frame for the weights which counterbalance a lifting sash.

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noun flower box

Deutsch	Blumenkasten

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@misc{window_box_2026,
  title = {window box},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/window%20box},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}