As nouns the difference between agriculture and greenhouse
is that agriculture is the art or science of cultivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of livestock; tillage; husbandry; farming while greenhouse is a building traditionally made of glass, but now also made from plastics such as polyethylene, in which plants are grown more rapidly than outside such a building by the action of heat from the sun, this heat being trapped inside by the glass or plastic.
agriculture
Noun
(
en noun)
The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of livestock; tillage; husbandry; farming.
Related terms
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* agricultural
* agriculturist
* agroponics
* terraponics
greenhouse
Noun
(
en noun)
A building traditionally made of glass, but now also made from plastics such as polyethylene, in which plants are grown more rapidly than outside such a building by the action of heat from the sun, this heat being trapped inside by the glass or plastic.
Usage notes
: In the UK, greenhouse is the term used domestically. Large commercial greenhouses are called glasshouses by professionals.
Synonyms
* glasshouse (chiefly commercial)
Derived terms
* greenhouse bug
* greenhouse effect
* greenhouse gas
See also
* cloche
* hothouse
* orangery
* polytunnel
External links
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==Guernésiais==
Noun
(f)
Synonyms
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