window box

window box (plural window boxes)

1. A narrow box filled with earth, placed on a windowsill and used for growing plants.
   • 2013 August 10, “A new prescription”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:

     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.

2. One of the hollows in the sides of a window frame for the weights which counterbalance a lifting sash.

• flower box, herb box, planter

• windowbox