glasshouse
Americannoun
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glasshouses
plural
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a glassworks.
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Chiefly British. a green-house.
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British Informal. a military prison.
noun
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a glass building, esp a greenhouse, used for growing plants in protected or controlled conditions
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obsolete a military detention centre
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another word for glassworks
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Etymology
Origin of glasshouse
First recorded in 1350–1400, glasshouse is from Middle English glas hous. See glass, house
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“There’s something out there that thinks a corpse flower smells like heaven,” said Marc Hachadourian, director of glasshouse horticulture at the New York Botanical Garden, which hosted a corpse flower bloom last year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
They added this yeast to bee diets and tested it over three months in controlled glasshouse experiments.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 27, 2026
"We then engineered these into crops, and if that results in an improvement in the glasshouse, then we take it to our experimental farm and test it in a real-world environment," says Prof Long.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2023
“Santa Maria will be one of the last growing areas in California before everything probably goes glasshouse or indoor in places like Detroit or Chicago or New Jersey,” Harrison said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2022
“Number eight, getting caught stealing grapes from the glasshouse in the kitchen garden. That’s another birching. ’Course we’re all too old now for birchings and for grape-stealing.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
Under Theodore Roosevelt, putting up the West Wing required removing glasshouses used for growing plants.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025
After growing in glasshouses, harvesting and polishing the rice grains, they found that the vitamin B1 content was increased in rice grains from these lines.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 11, 2024
Crafted in Lancashire, England, where the company, Hartley Botanic, has been manufacturing glasshouses since 1938, the Patio is available in 15 colors. $4,400 at hartley-botanic.com.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 20, 2023
"Heating in glasshouses during the mid 17th Century was provided by furnaces placed within the structure, but fumes often damaged or killed the plants," Ms Lausen-Higgins says.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2020
It encompassed not only the vast archives, but the university, too, together with laboratories and glasshouses, medical theaters and music rooms, and even a celestial observatory.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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