greenhouse
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2.3
- noun
- /ˈɡriːnhaʊs/
:
invernadero
- The greenhouse provides the ideal environment for delicate plants to thrive.
Even so they say, look, this greenhouse is here.
- Even so they say, look, this greenhouse is here.
- So that's the purpose of this greenhouse is mostly for retail sales of live plants.
- We ate at one restaurant on that trip, and it was a greenhouse where they grew tomatoes and made tomato soup.
Examples
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Can you move these orchids into the greenhouse?
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Henny had told Trudy they were grown in greenhouses on Long Island.
Fiction book (1992) -
It's also been really cold, but coming in here into the greenhouse, it's pretty warm.
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This area right here by the greenhouse is still a mess.
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The greenhouse is going strong.
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The greenhouse behind the convenience store on Main Street.
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We ate at one restaurant on that trip, and it was a greenhouse where they grew tomatoes and made tomato soup.
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I've always thought the greenhouse was one of the most agreeable rooms in the house.
Fiction book (1990) -
My end goal is to have a greenhouse and a veg patch like my mum's.
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The glass roof of the long greenhouse below it was smeared gray-white with lime wash.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
11
4.8
A heated greenhouse for growing tropical and delicate plants
9
6.0
A glass room attached to a house for growing plants
1
3.3
A building with glass walls and roof for growing plants and keeping them warm
Compounds
- Specialized
16
3.4
The air around the Earth becomes warmer because some gases trap heat from the sun
- Specialized
3
3.8
A gas like carbon dioxide or methane that traps heat in the air and warms the planet
- Specialized
1
4.5
A rise in Earth's temperature when gases in the air trap the Sun's heat
- Specialized
A small white insect that lives in greenhouses and eats plant sap
How Warm
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Greenhouse is simply two words put together: green for plants and house for a building. It literally means a building with glass where people grow and protect green plants and keep them warm.