Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A glass house for growing palms and other tropical plants.
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Examples
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Go to the palm-house, find the Musa sapientum, magnify it ten times, glorify it immeasurably, and you will have a laggard idea of the banana groves of Hilo.
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For example, there is a specimen of the Pandanus odoratissimus in the palm-house in the Edinburgh Botanic Gardens, which is certainly a malignant caricature, with its long straggling branches, and widely scattered tufts of poverty stricken foliage.
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The bananas and plantains in that same palm-house represent only the feeblest and poorest of their tribe.
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Imagine living for six continuous months in the hottest palm-house in Kew Gardens; yet the planter is out and about all day long; nearly always on pony back, however, an enormously thick solah toppee hat or a heavy white umbrella protecting his head.
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When Joseph Paxton raised the palm-house at Chatsworth he little suspected that he was building for the world -- that, to borrow a simile from his own vocation, he was setting a bulb which would expand into a shape of as wide note as the domes of Florence and St. Sophia.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876
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The large palm-house is one of the most successful in Ireland, and the Crawford Observatory will repay a visit.
The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway
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From the ferns we look to the rest of the forest, and after the first bewilderment at the profusion and variety of vegetation we try to fasten on to a few individuals or types which we can identify as having seen elsewhere in some other part of India or in some palm-house in England.
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The palm-house took a good part of their time, for the beautiful statue of Burn's Highland Mary, gleaming white from a bed of green, took Chester's attention, as also the historical figures surrounding the house.
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First they took a car to the Botanical Gardens, looked at the flower beds and inspected the palm-house.
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Since then the heat has grown worse, about the temperature of a freely watered palm-house, and my lack of summer materials is making itself decidedly felt.
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