Meaning Of The Word Hothouse

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hothouse
You can refer to a situation or place as a hothouse when there is intense activity, especially intellectual or emotional activity.
countable noun: A hothouse is a heated building, usually made of glass, in which plants and flowers can be grown.

hothouse in American English
a building made mainly of glass, artificially heated for growing plants; greenhouse
grown in a hothouse
adjective: of, pertaining to, or noting a plant grown in a hothouse, or so fragile as to be capable of being grown only in a hothouse
noun: an artificially heated greenhouse for the cultivation of tender plants

hothouse in British English
noun: a greenhouse in which the temperature is maintained at a fixed level above that of the surroundings

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