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n. Epipremnum aureum, a vine widely cultivated as a houseplant, once classified in the genus Pothos.

n. Pothos, a genus of plants consisting of subtropical and tropical, climbing, flowering vines, indigenous to the environs of the Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean.

n. A genus of plants, of the order Araceæ, type of the tribe Pothoideæ, characterized by an ovary with three cells, each with one ovule, a large embryo without albumen, and a spathe enlarging after flowering.

n. any of various tropical lianas of the genus Scindapsus

n. evergreen liana widely cultivated for its variegated foliage

"Then, having used the Greek word pothos, he checks himself as though dreading a frown from Varius, and substitutes the Latin word puer,"

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