hothouse
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zɪz 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.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a. a greenhouse in which the temperature is maintained at a fixed level above that of the surroundings |
| b. (as modifier): a hothouse plant | |
| 2. | a. an environment that encourages rapid development |
| b. (as modifier): a hot-house atmosphere | |
| 3. | an environment where there is great pressure: showjumping is a tough, hothouse world |
| 4. | informal, censorious often (modifier) sensitive or delicate: a hothouse temperament |
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Hothouse
is always a great word to know.
So is slumgullion. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
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Word Origin & History
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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Example sentences
Hothouse tomato growers reported difficulty keeping up with harvest requirements.
His selective public high school is a hothouse of academic pressure.
We share this impatience with hothouse coteries and tend to charge ahead, mowing down everything in our paths.
The city was a hothouse for radical innovations in politics, philosophy and the arts.
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