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[ hot-hous ] / ˈhɒtˌhaʊs / SEE SYNONYMS FOR hothouse ON THESAURUS.COM
noun, plural hot·hous·es [hot-hou-ziz]. /ˈhɒtˌhaʊ zɪz/. an artificially heated greenhouse for the cultivation of tender plants. adjectiveof, relating to, or noting a plant grown in a hothouse, or so fragile as to be capable of being grown only in a hothouse. overprotected, artificial, or unnaturally delicate. Origin of hothouseFirst recorded in 1505–15; hot + house Words nearby hothousehot flush, hotfoot, hotfoot it, hothead, hotheaded, hothouse, hothouse lamb, Hotien, hot Jupiter, hotkey, hot lick Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for hothouseIf Saudi Arabia is a hothouse flower, then Americans have helped build the greenhouse. Will Saudi Arabia Execute Guest Workers for 'Witchcraft'?|Michael Schulson|March 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST Hothouse by Boris Kachka A romp through the history of venerable publisher Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. This Week’s Hot Reads: August 5, 2013|Nicholas Mancusi|August 5, 2013|DAILY BEAST Outside the hothouse of that environment, he is making sense—though his is a message that many conservatives may not want to hear. Newt Gingrich Faces Reality, Admits Conservatives Were Out of Touch|Howard Kurtz|March 5, 2013|DAILY BEAST The princess and marvel had resolved herself again into the fairy of the hothouse. The Side Of The Angels|Basil King
The decoration of the hothouse would now depend in a great measure upon Begonias, Euphorbias, Luculias, &c. In-Door Gardening for Every Week in the Year|William Keane But by far the most important and interesting crops here are the hothouse flowers. In the Heart of Vosges|Matilda Betham-Edwards Cover the pots with glass and stand them in the warmest part of a hothouse. Gardening for the Million|Alfred Pink I here observed the best crop and finest bunches of hothouse grapes that I had previously met with on the continent. Journal of a Horticultural Tour through Germany, Belgium, and part of France, in the Autumn of 1835|James Forbes
British Dictionary definitions for hothouse
noun- a greenhouse in which the temperature is maintained at a fixed level above that of the surroundings
- (as modifier)a hothouse plant
- an environment that encourages rapid development
- (as modifier)a hot-house atmosphere
an environment where there is great pressureshowjumping is a tough, hothouse world (modifier) informal, often censorious sensitive or delicatea hothouse temperament Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to hothousebed, field, nursery, terrace, patio, greenhouse, back yard, plot, conservatory, patch, oasis, enclosure, cold frame |