pothos

American  

[poh-thos, -thuhs, poth-ohs, -uhs] / ˈpoʊ θɒs, -θəs, ˈpɒθ oʊs, -əs /

noun

• pothos,
  plural
• pothoses
  plural

1. any of various tropical climbing vines belonging to the genera Pothos and Epipremnum, of the arum family, especially E. aureum, widely cultivated for its variegated foliage.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• pothos
  plural
• pothoses
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of pothos

< New Latin (Linnaeus), said to be < Sinhalese

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Example Sentences

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pothos pothoses

“I grabbed a festive disco ball planter with a pothos in it, came home to put it on our windowsill, and I was just so excited,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2025

You may find yourself loitering near the kitchen island, pretending to study a hanging pothos while calculating whether it’s worth another scoop.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2025

Busy gardeners should look for low-maintenance plants like ZZ plants, Chinese evergreens, pothos and philodendrons, while others may choose ferns, peace lilies, baby tears and gardenias that require a bit more attention and care.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 20, 2024

He carefully packages each one — golden pothos, string of hearts, trailing hoya — with a small team of employees, slaps on a bright sticker that reads “live plants,” and ships them across the country.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2023

There were few orchids, but the large 299 shapely emerald coloured leaves of pothos plants were very frequent, sitting in the angles of branches and trunk.

From The Sea and the Jungle by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson

It rained violently, but the pothoses, arums, and lianas, furnished so thick a natural trellis, that we were sheltered as under a vault of foliage.

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Alexander von Humboldt

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