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

I mean those that really came over with a single purpose and were not proof against the forcing house of war.

From The Sisters-In-Law by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

With the returning light of the sun, and the steadily rising temperature, the ghostly foliage would promptly assume Nature's happy green and the world would ripen with the rapidity of a forcing house.

From The Heart of Unaga by Cullum, Ridgwell

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 office of the Flag was a forcing house for Raphael; many latent thoughts developed into extraordinary maturity.

From The Grandchildren of the Ghetto by Zangwill, Israel