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

It agrees very well with this conception that the prince himself takes the laurel from the gardener's forcing house to wind a wreath of honor for himself.

From Sleep Walking and Moon Walking A Medico-Literary Study by Sadger, J.

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)

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 trees should be removed to the forcing house in the beginning of December, if fruit be required very early in the season.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various