hothouse.

1. A heated glass-covered structure used to grow plants needing warmth.

2. An environment promoting unusually intensive growth, training, or development.

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Words that belong together

• heated hothouse
• tropical hothouse

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The hothouse sheltered tropical plants.

Condensation covered the hothouse windows.

The gardener checked the heated hothouse.

Usage notes

Primary category: architecture. Forms: Singular hothouse; plural hothouses. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.