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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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Hothouses
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
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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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