Pothosn.
/ˈpəʊθəs/, U.S. /ˈpoʊθəs/ Botany.
A genus of climbing plants (family Araceae) native to the Old World tropics; (also pothos) any of the members of this genus, some of which are cultivated as foliage plants. Frequently attributive.In early use the genus also included South American members, now assigned to other genera, esp. Anthurium.
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Paullinia1753
Pothos1754
corchorus1759
water vine1774
cobaea1805
bush-rope1814
combretum1819
kerria1823
pishamin1826
guarana1838
stephanotis1843
lapageria1849
pear-withe1864
waw-waw1864
Bougainvillaea1866
pyxie1882
pine-barren beauty1883
Madagascar jasmine1884
streptosolen1938
1754 New & Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. III. 2511/2 Pothos, in botany, a genus of the gynandria polyandria class.
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. xix. 52 The Florets may be disposed..all round it, as in Calla, Dracontium and Pothos.
1799 Lady C. Murray Brit. Garden I. 120 P. Fœtida. Stinging Pothos, or Scunk-weed.
1832 W. Macgillivray Trav. & Researches A. von Humboldt xviii. 271 The pothoses, arums, and lianas, furnished so thick a covering that..they were completely sheltered.
1863 H. W. Bates Naturalist on River Amazons I. i. 23 Climbing Pothos plants, with large, glossy heart-shaped leaves.
1942 C. Knight Affair Splintered Heart xvi. 162 It was just beyond that tulip tree with the pothos vine that they found Maui Bill.
1993 Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 14 Mar. 14/5 The pothos is one of a number of low-light tolerant plants for the house and has the same general characteristics of the pothos group.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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