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hot·house

Audio Help [hot-hous] Pronunciation Key noun, plural -hous·es

Audio Help [-hou-ziz] Pronunciation Key, adjective

–noun

1.	an artificially heated greenhouse for the cultivation of tender plants.

–adjective

2.	of, pertaining to, or noting a plant grown in a hothouse, or so fragile as to be capable of being grown only in a hothouse.

3.	overprotected, artificial, or unnaturally delicate.

[Origin: 1505–15; hot + house

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hot·house Audio Help (hŏt'hous') Pronunciation Key
n.

A heated greenhouse for plants that require an even, relatively warm temperature.
An environment conducive to vigorous growth or development; a hotbed: "With its mix of African, Latin, European, and pan-American influences, the Caribbean is truly a musical hothouse" (New Yorker).

adj.

Grown in a hothouse: a hothouse orchid.
Delicate and sensitive, as if from being grown in a hothouse.

tr.v. hot·housed, hot·hous·ing, hot·hous·es
To cultivate in a hothouse.

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
hothouse

1451, "bath house," from hot + house. In 17c. a euphemism for "brothel" (cf. massage parlor); the meaning "glass-roofed structure for raising plants" is from 1749.

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hothouse
noun
a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner [syn: conservatory]

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary (Beta Version) - Cite This Source - Share This
ˈhothouse noun

a glass-house kept warm for growing plants in
Example: He grows orchids in his hothouse.

Arabic:	بَيْت زُجاجي لِتَرْبِيَة الحيوانات تَحْتَ دَرجة حرارَ
Chinese (Simplified):	温室
Chinese (Traditional):	溫室
Czech:	skleník, pařeniště
Danish:	drivhus
Dutch:	broeikas
Estonian:	kasvuhoone
Finnish:	kasvihuone
French:	serre (chaude)
German:	das Treibhaus
Greek:	θερμοκήπιο
Hungarian:	üvegház
Icelandic:	gróðurhús
Indonesian:	rumah kaca
Italian:	serra

Japanese:	温室
Korean:	온실
Latvian:	siltumnīca
Lithuanian:	šiltnamis
Norwegian:	driv-, *veksthus
Polish:	cieplarnia
Portuguese (Brazil):	estufa
Portuguese (Portugal):	estufa
Romanian:	seră
Russian:	теплица
Slovak:	skleník, parenisko
Slovenian:	rastlinjak
Spanish:	invernadero
Swedish:	drivhus, växthus
Turkish:	sera, limonluk, ser

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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.

2. A bagnio, or bathing house. [Obs.] --Shak.

3. A brothel; a bagnio. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.

4. (Pottery) A heated room for drying green ware.

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