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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 mannerplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


HOTHOUSE (noun)


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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