Hothouse vs Greenhouse - What's the difference?
hothouse | greenhouse |
A heated greenhouse.
(figurative) An environment in which growth or development is encouraged; a hotbed.
(obsolete) A bagnio, or bathing house; a brothel.
* 1604 , , II. i. 64:
A heated room for drying greenware.
(of a child) To provide with an enriched environment with the aim of stimulating academic development.
English words with consonant pseudo-digraphs
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.
As nouns the difference between hothouse and greenhouse
is that hothouse is a heated greenhouse 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.As a verb hothouse
is to provide with an enriched environment with the aim of stimulating academic development.hothouse
English
Noun
(en noun)- and now she professes a / hot-house , which I think is a very ill house too.
- (Ben Jonson)
