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hothouse definition

hot·house (hät′ho̵us′)

noun

a building made mainly of glass, artificially heated for growing plants; greenhouse

adjective

  1. grown in a hothouse
  2. needing very careful treatment; delicate

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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