As nouns the difference between reservatory and greenhouse
is that reservatory is a place in which things are reserved or kept 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 an adjective reservatory
is reserving something.
reservatory
English
Noun
(
reservatories)
A place in which things are reserved or kept.
- (Woodward)
Adjective
(
-)
reserving something
- a reservatory clause
(
Webster 1913)
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
*