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Meaning of window box | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. A narrow box filled with earth, placed on a windowsill and used for growing plants.
  2. One of the hollows in the sides of a window frame for the weights which counterbalance a lifting sash.

Equivalents

Deutsch Blumenkasten

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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