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HOTHOUSE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hothouse mean?
• HOTHOUSE (noun)
The noun HOTHOUSE has 1 sense:
1. a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner
Familiarity information: HOTHOUSE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
conservatory; hothouse; indoor garden
Hypernyms ("hothouse" is a kind of...):
glasshouse; greenhouse (a building with glass walls and roof; for the cultivation and exhibition of plants under controlled conditions)
Context examples
John no one thwarted, much less punished; though he twisted the necks of the pigeons, killed the little pea-chicks, set the dogs at the sheep, stripped the hothouse vines of their fruit, and broke the buds off the choicest plants in the conservatory: he called his mother old girl, too; sometimes reviled her for her dark skin, similar to his own; bluntly disregarded her wishes; not unfrequently tore and spoiled her silk attire; and he was still her own darling.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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