glasshouse
Americannoun
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a glassworks.
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Chiefly British. a green-house.
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British Informal. a military prison.
noun
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a glass building, esp a greenhouse, used for growing plants in protected or controlled conditions
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obsolete a military detention centre
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another word for glassworks
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of glasshouse
First recorded in 1350–1400, glasshouse is from Middle English glas hous. See glass, house
Example Sentences
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They added this yeast to bee diets and tested it over three months in controlled glasshouse experiments.
From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2026
"We should be committing to onshore production, so glasshouse production of cucumbers and tomatoes, we should be trying to build that here," he said.
From BBC • Feb. 26, 2023
“Santa Maria will be one of the last growing areas in California before everything probably goes glasshouse or indoor in places like Detroit or Chicago or New Jersey,” Harrison said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 26, 2022
Eight volunteers wearing snazzy red jumpsuits seal themselves into a hi-tech glasshouse that’s meant to perfectly replicate Earth’s ecosystems.
From The Guardian • Jul. 13, 2020
Ozwin, the farmer-botanist, needed a glasshouse and fields for planting, so he, too, had to go out of the city and out of the citadel’s shadow, where his seeds and seedlings would see sunlight.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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