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

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)

Even the new forcing house had lost its attractions for him, and Tom, after some further ineffectual attempts to bring him round, returned to the house somewhat crestfallen.

From Tom Brown at Oxford by Hughes, Thomas

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

And now after nearly four years in the fiercest forcing house of character Derek Vane found himself trying to take an inventory of his own stock.

From Mufti by McNeile, H. C. (Herman Cyril)