is "bonsai pot" redundant ?

as i ponder alternative english words for bonsai it is difficult to come up with something that is not cumbersome and does need much additional explanation, though i do have a couple ideas...

but in that pondering, i came to realize that the term "bonsai pot" may be redundant...

if bonsai means tree in pot (or tray), then the word "pot" is being said twice when saying "bonsai pot"

if speaking japanese, would that be "bonsai bon" ?

just thinking out loud...

btw... i can just imagine jim (and others) going: ***sigh*** and doing this in my general direction

Sigh

i am literally laughing out loud... no emoticon needed.

thank you jim.

I don't speak Japanese but it would be interesting to know how the Japanese solve this, er... very existential question that prevents us from spending our time and thoughts on more trivial matters like having a beer while working on our trees (joking!).

For instance, one can say "useful tools". In French "outils utiles": the etymologgy is even more obvious, it's a kind of pleonasm actually since the words "outils", and "utiles" have the same origin, the latin "utilis" (useful). http://www.etymonline.com gives another etymology for the English "tool", but they don't get as far as indo-european, so maybe...

For the capillotracting  (literal translation of the French "capillotracteur", those who try to split a hair into four parts, "couper les cheveux en quatre" - vertically of course, otherwise, where's the fun?) linguists:

http://atilf.atilf.fr wrote: Du b. lat. *, sing. de *, plur. neutre, altération du lat. class. «objets nécessaires, meubles, ustensiles», dér. de «se servir de, employer».

PS: Google translate:

bonsaï pot => 盆栽鉢
Pot à bonsaï => 盆栽鉢 (same translation)