conservatory, hothouse, indoor garden
(noun) a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner
Source: WordNet® 3.1
hothouse (plural hothouses)
A heated greenhouse.
(figurative) An environment in which growth or development is encouraged naturally or artificially; a hotbed.
(obsolete) A bagnio, or bathing house; a brothel.
A heated room for drying greenware.
(climatology) A hot state in global climate.
Synonym: greenhouse
Antonym: icehouse
hothouse (third-person singular simple present hothouses, present participle hothousing, simple past and past participle hothoused)
(of a child) To provide with an enriched environment with the aim of stimulating academic development.
Source: Wiktionary
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.
2. A bagnio, or bathing house. [Obs.] Shak.
3. A brothel; a bagnio. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
4. (Pottery)
Definition: A heated room for drying green ware.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
18 January 2025
(noun) (Yiddish) a little; a piece; “give him a shtik cake”; “he’s a shtik crazy”; “he played a shtik Beethoven”
The world’s most expensive coffee costs more than US$700 per kilogram. Asian palm civet – a cat-like creature in Indonesia, eats fruits, including select coffee cherries. It excretes partially digested seeds that produce a smooth, less acidic brew of coffee called kopi luwak.
