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Definition of Hothouse
1. Noun. A greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner.
Definition of Hothouse
1. 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.
Definition of Hothouse
1. Noun. A heated greenhouse. ¹
2. Noun. (figurative) An environment in which growth or development is encouraged; a hotbed. ¹
3. Noun. (obsolete) A bagnio, or bathing house; a brothel. ¹
4. Noun. A heated room for drying greenware. ¹
5. Verb. (context: of a child) To provide with an enriched environment with the aim of stimulating academic development. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hothouse
1. to grow in a hothouse (a heated greenhouse) [v -HOUSED, -HOUSING, -HOUSES]
Medical Definition of Hothouse
1. 1. 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. 2. A bagnio, or bathing house. 3. A brothel; a bagnio. 4. A heated room for drying green ware. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hothouse
Literary usage of Hothouse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Excursions and Lessons in Home Geography by Charles Alexander McMurry (1905)
"1. Survey of the plants in the hothouse. 2. Construction of the hothouse ...
The cultivation of flowers in hothouse. 6. The cultivation of vegetables. 7. ..."
2. The Suburban Horticulturist: Or, An Attempt to Teach the Science and by John Claudius Loudon (1842)
"In a well-ventilated hothouse, by watering the floor in summer, we may bring the
dew-point within four or five degrees of the temperature of the air, ..."
3. Fruits and Vegetables Under Glass: Apples, Apricots, Cherries, Figs, Grapes by William Turner (1912)
"No one who has never had a taste of a hothouse Pineapple can realize the difference
between the Southern product and our home-grown hothouse fruit. ..."
4. The Book of the Garden by Charles McIntosh (1853)
"hothouse FURNACES. The hothouse furnace described by ... according to the kind
of hothouse to which it may be attached, and the kind of fuel to be used. ..."
5. The Gardener's Magazine and Register of Rural and Domestic Improvement by J C Loudon (1826)
"OF all the genera of hothouse bulbs, that are cultivated in our gardens, none
can vie with the beautiful genus AMARYLLIS, of which there are now numerous ..."
6. The Panorama of Science and Art: Embracing the Sciences of Aerostation by James Smith (1815)
"They then have all the appearance of a hothouse, from which they differ ...
In the inclination which should be given to the glazed roof of a hothouse, ..."
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