forcing house

British  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

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

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

The plan of the house gives two nearly equal apartments, one to be used as a propagating and forcing house, and the other as a conservatory or show house for plants and flowers.

From Woodward's Graperies and Horticultural Buildings by Woodward, George E. (George Evertson)

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