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# hothouse

«hothouse» in Mova's school dictionary: **a warm glass building where plants grow that could not…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (hothouses)

### meaning for a pupil

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

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

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hothouse» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hothouse/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.