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单词 hothouse plant
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Definition of hothouse plant in English:

hothouse plant

noun
  • 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. 1.1 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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