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 forcing house where the experiments were carried on was 20 � 60 ft., and was divided into two portions by a partition.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 by Various

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

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

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