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.

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

To walk is difficult in a damp steamy temperature hotter during daylight than the hottest forcing house in Kew.

From The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses by Froude, James Anthony

The unrivaled French opera is in season, the forcing house of that bright garden of exotics.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 by Various