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Underplot vs Underpot - What's the difference?

underplot | underpot |

As a noun underplot

is a subplot; a plot that is not the main plot of a story.

As a verb underpot is

to place (a plant) in too small a pot.

underplot

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A subplot; a plot that is not the main plot of a story.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1882-89, author=, title=A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=I have not been able to discover the source of the very curious underplot of The Captives . }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1906, author=Walter W. Greg, title=Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Thus, again to quote Mr. Homer Smith, it has been held that 'In general the pastoral incidents serve as an underplot , utterly foreign in spirit to the main plot.' }}

    underpot

    English

    Verb

  • To place (a plant) in too small a pot.