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Definition of hothouse plant in English: hothouse plantnoun 1A plant grown in a hothouse. a hybrid first grown as a hothouse plant in England Example sentencesExamples - This impression is enhanced by the way the hothouse plants are beginning to grow through and around the sculptures.
- Hothouse plants that were taken outdoors to decorate the garden or terrace in the summer months were acclimatized for a period in the unheated greenhouse.
- The stand was created to bring nature indoors, and one might draw a parallel between a hothouse plant and a landscape painting—each is an aspect of commodified nature.
- There are plans for deep-freeze capsules carrying medicines or human organs for transplants and even heated ones for hothouse plants or food.
- On Christmas Day 1848, he sailed east in search of hothouse plants and exotic shrubs.
- He is collecting data on the neighbourhood plant thefts and is urging all home gardeners to be wary of buying "hot" hothouse plants.
- My mistake was that unknowingly I always chose difficult specimens, hothouse plants in every sense of the word.
- A hybrid first grown as a hothouse plant in England, the bean's waxy texture earned it its name.
- In the numerous pits and frames, popular exotics, such as the orange, camellia, and numerous other greenhouse and hothouse plants, were increased by hundreds.
- Many of the miniatures sold at florists or checkouts around the country are hothouse plants that won't take any cold at all.
- 1.1 A delicate or fragile person or thing.
we're all a lot of hothouse plants just crying for attention Example sentencesExamples - You get the feeling we're all a lot of hothouse plants just crying for attention.
- The contemplative life is unfortunately too often thought of in terms purely of enclosure, and monks are conceived of as hothouse plants.
- The journal preached popular revolution, and incidentally dismissed Herzen's radicalism as a frail hothouse plant.
- No court in the land would allow his second will, as it had been composed by a man with the mental abilities of a small hothouse plant.
- At the present, North America has only seven such small monasteries, each a hothouse plant existing in a small bubble of lay support.
- The flowers of his rhetoric were hothouse plants.
- These horses are trained like they are hothouse plants instead of the way it used to be.
- He conceded the existence of the market, but he argued that it was a hothouse plant rooted in the easily depleted soil of slavery.
- Darrow once described him in court as a hothouse plant.
- He is a hothouse plant—or was that potted plant?
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