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green-house, greenhouse|ˈgriːnhaʊs|
1. [f. green n. 10.] A glass-house in which delicate and tender plants are reared and preserved.
1664Evelyn Kal. Hort. (1729) 198 Set your..Windows and Doors of the Green-houses and Conservatories open. 1683― Diary 30 Oct., Greene houses for oranges and mirtles. 1712J. James tr. Le Blond's Gardening 75 Green⁓houses are large Piles of Building like Galleries..for preserving Orange-Trees, and other Plants..during the Winter. 1742Phil. Trans. XLII. 56 Thermometers, Hygrometers and Barometers.. adapted to the Use of Green-houses. 1858Glenny Gard. Every-day Bk. 94/1 The house ought now to be enriched by plants from the greenhouse and hothouse.
b. attrib., as greenhouse cactus, green-house plant, green-house shrub; greenhouse bug (see quot.); greenhouse effect Meteorol., the phenomenon whereby the surface and the lower atmosphere of a planet are maintained at a relatively high temperature owing to the greater transparency of the atmosphere to visible radiation from the sun than to infra-red radiation from the planet.
1797Holcroft tr. Stolberg's Trav. (ed. 2) III. lxxx. 232 The cistus with us is a green-house plant. 1845Florist's Jrnl. 15 A hardy and very pretty greenhouse shrub. 1848Rural Cycl. II. 525 Greenhouse-bug, scientifically Coccus Hesperidum, a heteropterous insect of the gallinsecta or coccidæ family. 1858Glenny Gard. Every-day Bk. 140/1 Greenhouse Cacti and Epiphyllums. 1937G. T. Trewartha Introd. Weather & Climate i. 25 The so-called greenhouse effect of the atmosphere. 1962F. I. Ordway et al. Basic Astronautics iii. 78 On Mars the greenhouse effect is not expected to be very significant. 1968Observer 17 Nov. 9/5 Carbon dioxide..is responsible for a ‘greenhouse’ effect which allows in heat from the sun but prevents it escaping back into space.
2. Pottery. A house in which ‘green ware’ (see green a. 9 d) is left to dry, before being placed in the kiln.
1875Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 614 The [bisque] ware being finished from the hands of the potter is brought by him upon boards to the ‘green-house’, so called from its being the receptacle for ware in the ‘green’ or unfired state.
3. Aeronaut. slang. (See quots.)
1941Life 24 Mar. 85/1 In the slang of the Royal Air Force man, the cockpit of his plane is the ‘pulpit’ or ‘office’, the glass covering over it the ‘greenhouse’. 1942Gen 1 Sept. 14/1 A fighter pilot..pulls the ‘greenhouse’—cockpit cover—over him. 1944Word Study Apr. 4/2 Greenhouse. This is what pilots call the glass cockpit covering over observation and similar planes. 1947Auden Age of Anxiety (1948) i. 18 ‘Why have They killed me?’ wondered Bert, our Greenhouse gunner. |