forcing house

British  

noun

1. a place where growth or maturity (as of fruit, animals, etc) is artificially hastened

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forcing house

Rich men have had them for centuries; Tiberius Caesar raised cucumbers in a mica-covered "forcing house" when his doctor advised him to eat warm-weather vegetables the year round.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus the experiments with a naked light showed conclusively that "within range of an ordinary forcing house the naked arc light running continuously through the night is injurious to some plants."

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 by Various

In the few hours she had passed under Lord Buntingford's roof she seemed to herself to have been passing through a forcing house.

From Helena by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

If, however, Kvatopil survives the end of the war, a brave and ambitious officer like him will undoubtedly have mounted higher on the ladder of promotion—the battle-field is the forcing house of advancement!

From Eyes Like the Sea by Jókai, Mór

The average club perhaps is pre-eminently its forcing house, for there you shall find the growth both multifold and luxuriant.

From A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance by Mitford, Bertram