hothouse

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
hothouse
    n 1: a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing
         manner [syn: {conservatory}, {hothouse}, {indoor garden}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Hothouse \Hot"house`\, n.
   1. A house kept warm to shelter tender plants and shrubs from
      the cold air; a place in which the plants of warmer
      climates may be reared, and fruits ripened.
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   2. A bagnio, or bathing house. [Obs.] --Shak.
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   3. A brothel; a bagnio. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
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   4. (Pottery) A heated room for drying green ware.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
27 Moby Thesaurus words for "hothouse":
      babied, cloche, coddled, cold frame, conservatory, coolhouse,
      dainty, delicate, forcing bed, forcing house, forcing pit, fragile,
      frail, glasshouse, greenhouse, hotbed, lathhouse, nursery,
      orangery, pampered, pinery, seedbed, sensitive, sheltered,
      shielded, spoiled, summerhouse
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