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pothos

(ˈpəʊθəs)
n
any aroid climbing plant of the genus Pothos
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Noun1.pothos - any of various tropical lianas of the genus Scindapsuspothos - any of various tropical lianas of the genus Scindapsus
genus Pothos, genus Scindapsus, Scindapsus - evergreen climbers with adhesive adventitious roots; southeastern Asia and Brazil
liana - a woody climbing usually tropical plant
2.pothos - evergreen liana widely cultivated for its variegated foliage
Epipremnum, genus Epipremnum - small genus of evergreen lianas of southeastern Asia to western Pacific areas
liana - a woody climbing usually tropical plant
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3) Pothos, or money plant, doesn't grow money but a very important reason to have it at home is that it increases humidity in the air.
Hoyt has a potted rosebush and likes the look of the cascading tendrils on pothos vines (also called "Devil's ivy") hung from the ceiling or on a high shelf.
The hybrid architectures contain both similarity measures and rules such as, "If it has feathers and wings, then it is a bird." A rule can be considered a special case of similarity when only a single or a small subset of an object's attributes are relevant (Pothos 2005).
Miraculously, my golden pothos that I surrendered to the elements, to the rain and the sun, evaded death.
Researchers at the University of Washington in the US have genetically modified a common houseplant pothos ivy to remove chloroform and benzene from the air around it Image Credit: Ahmed Kutty/XPRESS
KARACHI -- Researchers have genetically modified a common indoor plant - pothos ivy - to remove pollutants inside the house including chloroform and benzene that have been linked to cancer, according to a new study.
KARACHI -- Researchers have genetically modified a common indoor plant - pothos ivy - to remove pollutants inside the house including chloroform and benzene that have been linked to cancer, according to a new study.The modified plants express a protein, called P450 2E1 or 2E1, that transforms these compounds into molecules that the plants can then use to support their own growth.
These trees clean the air from basic pollutants and comprise such indoor species as weeping fig, asltonia scholaris, golden pothos, cassia fistula, jacaranda mimosifolia, spider and snake plants.
NASA's research saw the Golden Pothos paired with an activated carbon filter system.
Despite the artwork's abstract name, it shares little with the sculpted personifications for which classical antiquity is famed, statues such as Scopas's 4th-century BC Desire (Pothos), though Rodin was to make his own version of that figure, too.