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Hothouse vs Greenhouses - What's the difference?

hothouse | greenhouses |

As nouns the difference between hothouse and greenhouses

is that hothouse is a heated greenhouse while greenhouses is plural of greenhouse.

As a verb hothouse

is to provide with an enriched environment with the aim of stimulating academic development.

hothouse

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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:
    • and now she professes a / hot-house , which I think is a very ill house too.
    (Ben Jonson)
  • A heated room for drying greenware.

    • Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (of a child) To provide with an enriched environment with the aim of stimulating academic development.
    • English words with consonant pseudo-digraphs

    greenhouses

    English

    Noun

    (head)