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hothouse plantnoun1A plant grown in a hothouse: a hybrid first grown as a hothouse plant in England...- My mistake was that unknowingly I always chose difficult specimens, hothouse plants in every sense of the word.
- There are plans for deep-freeze capsules carrying medicines or human organs for transplants and even heated ones for hothouse plants or food.
- Many of the miniatures sold at florists or checkouts around the country are hothouse plants that won't take any cold at all.
1.1A delicate or fragile person or thing: we’re all a lot of hothouse plants just crying for attention...- You get the feeling we're all a lot of hothouse plants just crying for attention.
- The journal preached popular revolution, and incidentally dismissed Herzen's radicalism as a frail 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.
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