hot·house
ˈhät-ˌhau̇s 
1
: a greenhouse maintained at a high temperature especially for the culture of tropical plants
2
3
obsolete
: brothel
1
: grown in a hothouse
2
: suggestive of growth and development in a hothouse
a hothouse existence
also
: suggesting a hothouse
a hothouse atmosphere
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Noun
grows tomatoes in his hothouse all winter long
an urban enclave of bohemians that acquired a reputation for being a hothouse of creativity
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John Rennie, IEEE Spectrum, 31 May 2011
The big exception is in the Cretaceous (a period dominated by dinosaurs), which saw a hothouse climate develop, while carbon dioxide levels appeared to remain flat.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 20 Sep. 2024
April Long, Town & Country, 13 Sep. 2019
These fragile and artificial economies require hothouse conditions that a weakened OPEC can no longer provide.
—Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2017
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Noun
The social networks that will come out of these brainy hothouses will undoubtedly have surprising cultural consequences.
—John Rennie, IEEE Spectrum, 31 May 2011
The big exception is in the Cretaceous (a period dominated by dinosaurs), which saw a hothouse climate develop, while carbon dioxide levels appeared to remain flat.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 20 Sep. 2024
Adjective
Fracas, fittingly beloved by personality-plus women such as Madonna, Martha Stewart, and Isabella Blow, dials the heady, hothouse opulence of tuberose up to 11 with the addition of jasmine, tonka bean, and musk.
—April Long, Town & Country, 13 Sep. 2019
These fragile and artificial economies require hothouse conditions that a weakened OPEC can no longer provide.
—Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2017
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“Hothouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hothouse. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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