GREENHOUSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does greenhouse mean? 

• GREENHOUSE (noun)
  The noun GREENHOUSE has 1 sense:

1. a building with glass walls and roof; for the cultivation and exhibition of plants under controlled conditions

  Familiarity information: GREENHOUSE used as a noun is very rare.

• GREENHOUSE (adjective)
  The adjective GREENHOUSE has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or caused by the greenhouse effect

  Familiarity information: GREENHOUSE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GREENHOUSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A building with glass walls and roof; for the cultivation and exhibition of plants under controlled conditions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

glasshouse; greenhouse

Hypernyms ("greenhouse" is a kind of...):

building; edifice (a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "greenhouse"):

conservatory; hothouse; indoor garden (a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner)

orangery (a place where oranges are grown; a plantation of orange trees in warm climes or a greenhouse in cooler areas)

• GREENHOUSE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or caused by the greenhouse effect

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

greenhouse gases

Pertainym:

greenhouse effect (warming that results when solar radiation is trapped by the atmosphere; caused by atmospheric gases that allow sunshine to pass through but absorb heat that is radiated back from the warmed surface of the earth)

 Context examples 

Over the last half-billion or billion years on Titan, methane in its atmosphere has acted as a greenhouse gas, keeping the moon relatively warm - although still cold by Earth standards.

(New Models Suggest Titan Lakes Are Explosion Craters, NASA)

Increasing levels of organic molecules can therefore enhance microbial activity and produce more greenhouse gases.

(Climate change could double greenhouse gas emissions from freshwater ecosystems, University of Cambridge)

This result has implications for rainfall in the Asia-Pacific region as under increasing emissions of greenhouse gases, surface temperature over the Maritime Continent is expected to continue to rise.

(Global disasters linked to warming Indo-Pacific seas, SciDev.Net)

The process helps keep this greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere.

(Major deep carbon sink linked to microbes at volcanic island chains, National Science Foundation)

This is important because methane is the third most common greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, after water vapor and carbon dioxide.

(Alaska Shows No Signs of Rising Arctic Methane, NASA)

An increase in temperature that occurs globally such as the interglacial warming period the earth experienced after the last Ice Age, or that predicted to result from human increases in greenhouse gases.

(Global warming, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

He had thought of Jo in reaching after the thorny red rose, for vivid flowers became her, and she had often worn ones like that from the greenhouse at home.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

There’s a greenhouse which opens into the drawing-room.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But, by good fortune the greenhouse was not far off, and these words brought us to it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The study’s predictions are based on an assumption that there is no reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and that no improvements take place to curb the effects of climate change.

(Study: Climate Change Will Bring 50-Fold Rise in Europe Weather-related Deaths, VOA News)