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- noun Plural form of
greenhouse .
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Examples
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And most of it is raised in greenhouses on abandoned land.
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Ideas have been generated to use the captured CO2 in greenhouses or to grow algae.
eCO2 Watch by James Kershaw and Chad Garn » Yanko Design 2009
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But the super-hybrids must still be developed in greenhouses in places like the famed International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines.
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But the super-hybrids must still be developed in greenhouses in places like the famed International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines.
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The pear cacti, which is nursed in greenhouses in the States, grows wild on the plains to a height
Six Months in Mexico 1888
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Even the succulent blue lilies -- a variety of the agapanthus which is so familiar to us in English greenhouses -- hung their long trumpet-shaped flowers and looked oppressed and miserable, beneath the burning breath of the hot wind which had been blowing for hours like the draught from a volcano.
Jess Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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ABG. MC) is in advanced talks to sell carbon dioxide from its bioethanol plant in Rotterdam for use as a fertiliser gas in Dutch greenhouses, a source close to the negotiations said.
Reuters: Top News 2010
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Black, as he passed some sandhills covered with aloes and cactuses and rare exotics, such as one might expect to find in English greenhouses.
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He told the committee that DEP staff will continue to attempt to work against global warming and so-called greenhouses gasses despite the lack of money.
Newsalert Steve Bartin 2010
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And what has not happened is people moving back into what are called greenhouses, houses that have been adjudicated as safe for people to move back into.
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