Greenhouse
A greenhouse (also called a glasshouse, or, if with sufficient heating, a hothouse) is a structure with walls and roof made chiefly of transparent material, such as glass, in which plants requiring regulated climatic conditions are grown. These structures range in size from small sheds to industrial-sized buildings. A miniature greenhouse is known as a cold frame. The interior of a greenhouse exposed to sunlight becomes significantly warmer than the external ambient temperature, protecting its contents in cold weather.
Many commercial glass greenhouses or hothouses are high tech production facilities for vegetables or flowers. The glass greenhouses are filled with equipment including screening installations, heating, cooling, lighting, and may be controlled by a computer to optimize conditions for plant growth. Different techniques are then used to evaluate optimality-degrees and comfort ratio of greenhouse micro-climate (i.e., air temperature, relative humidity and vapor pressure deficit) in order to reduce production risk prior to cultivation of a specific crop.
Greenhouse (noun)
A building used to grow plants, particularly one with large glass windows or plastic sheeting to trap heat from sunlight even in intemperate seasons or climates.
Greenhouse (noun)
The glass of a plane’s cockpit.
Greenhouse (verb)
To place (plants) in a greenhouse.
Glasshouse (noun)
A building made of glass in which plants are grown more rapidly than outside such a building by the action of heat from the sun, this heat being trapped inside by the glass (chiefly commercial).
Glasshouse (noun)
A building where glass or glassware is manufactured.
Glasshouse (noun)
A military prison.
Greenhouse (noun)
a glass building in which plants that need protection from cold weather are grown.
Glasshouse (noun)
a greenhouse.
Glasshouse (noun)
a prison
“one bloke tried it and finished up in the glasshouse”