Hothouse

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hothouse \Hot"house`\, n.
     1. A house kept warm to shelter tender plants and shrubs from
        the cold air; a place in which the plants of warmer
        climates may be reared, and fruits ripened.
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     2. A bagnio, or bathing house. [Obs.] --Shak.
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     3. A brothel; a bagnio. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
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     4. (Pottery) A heated room for drying green ware.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  hothouse
       n : a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing
           manner [syn: {conservatory}, {indoor garden}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  27 Moby Thesaurus words for "hothouse":
     babied, cloche, coddled, cold frame, conservatory, coolhouse,
     dainty, delicate, forcing bed, forcing house, forcing pit, fragile,
     frail, glasshouse, greenhouse, hotbed, lathhouse, nursery,
     orangery, pampered, pinery, seedbed, sensitive, sheltered,
     shielded, spoiled, summerhouse