Hothouse
['hɒthaʊs]
Definition
(n.) A house kept warm to shelter tender plants and shrubs from the cold air; a place in which the plants of warmer climates may be reared, and fruits ripened.
(n.) A bagnio, or bathing house.
(n.) A brothel; a bagnio.
(n.) A heated room for drying green ware.
Typed by Garrett
Examples
- Love knows nothing of rank or position, and sees beauty in the wayside daisy as well as in the costly hothouse plant. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- His sense of humor is intense, but not of the hothouse, overdeveloped variety. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He began to grow fine fruits and vegetables and flowers, and his farm and gardens and hothouses became celebrated all over England. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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