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# hothouse

noun (hothouses)

«hothouse» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

A hothouse is a warm glass building where plants grow that could not live outside in cold weather. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hothouse/#m1)

### In the lessons

in stories a garden of rare flowers grows in a warm glass house; in lessons it names a greenhouse for tender plants

### Examples

- The gardener kept orchids in the hothouse. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hothouse/#x1)
- Tender plants need a hothouse in winter. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hothouse/#x2)
- The flowers in the hothouse were bright and rare. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hothouse/#x3)
- Our teacher grows tomatoes in a hothouse. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hothouse/#x4)
- We walked through a hothouse full of tropical trees. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hothouse/#x5)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «hothouse» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hothouse/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«hothouse» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/hothouse.html) on Mova free.