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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A structure, primarily of glass, in which temperature and humidity can be controlled for the cultivation or protection of plants.
  2. n. Slang A clear plastic bubble or shell covering part of an aircraft.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A building, the roof and one or more sides of which consist of glazed frames, constructed for the purpose of cultivating exotic plants which are too tender to endure the open air during the colder parts of the year. The temperature is generally kept up by means of artificial heat. It differs from a conservatory chiefly in that it is built to receive plants growing in pots and tubs, while those contained in a conservatory, in the proper use of the term, are grown in borders and beds; but in common use the latter name is applied to a greenhouse attached to a dwelling especially for the display of plants.
  2. n. In ceramics, a house in which green or unfired pottery is dried before being submitted to the fire of the kiln.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A building traditionally made of glass, but now also made from plastics such as polyethylene, 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 or plastic.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a building with glass walls and roof; for the cultivation and exhibition of plants under controlled conditions
  2. adj. of or relating to or caused by the greenhouse effect

Etymologies

  1. green +‎ house (Wiktionary)

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