greenhouse

[ green-hous ]

/ ˈgrinˌhaʊs /

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noun, plural green·hous·es

[green-hou-ziz]. /ˈgrinˌhaʊ zɪz/.

a building, room, or area, usually chiefly of glass, in which the temperature is maintained within a desired range, used for cultivating tender plants or growing plants out of season.

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Origin of greenhouse

First recorded in 1655–65; green + house

Words nearby greenhouse

Greenham Common, greenhead, greenheart, green heron, greenhorn, greenhouse, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gas, greenie, greening, greenish

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How to use greenhouse in a sentence

So let us take a trip back into deep time, a journey that will begin with the familiar climate of recorded history and end in the feverish, high-CO2 greenhouse of the early age of mammals, 50 million years ago.
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Pepco’s Climate Change Commitment includes more than 20 actions to help combat the climate crisis and drive its own greenhouse gas emissions down by 70 percent over the next five years.
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Globally, transportation produces about 16 percent of greenhouse gas emissions.
GM wants its cars to be fully electric by 2035. Here’s what that could mean for auto emissions.|Ula Chrobak|February 4, 2021|Popular-Science
Whether it shakes out as a valid way for the county to help meet its greenhouse gas reduction goals remains to be seen.
Farmers Want to Create San Diego’s Carbon Dumps|MacKenzie Elmer|February 3, 2021|Voice of San Diego

That’s in part because emissions of greenhouse gases continue to go up every year.
Analyze This: 2020 ties with 2016 for hottest year on record|Carolyn Wilke|February 3, 2021|Science News For Students
It's also become the largest energy producer in the world, even while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Politics End In Halifax As Democratic and GOP Senators Seek Common Ground on National Security|Tim Mak|November 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
And as Greenhouse is a very smart and sincere person who loves the Court and the law, her crie de coeur is striking.
A Reminder: Our Justices are Politicians in Robes|Jedediah Purdy|November 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Linda Greenhouse, the longtime Supreme Court reporter for the New York Times, declared surrender Thursday.
A Reminder: Our Justices are Politicians in Robes|Jedediah Purdy|November 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The United States and China announced new greenhouse emission targets late Tuesday night.
The U.S.-China Climate Deal Is Mostly Hot Air|Tim Mak|November 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Under unusually blue skies in Beijing, the American and Chinese presidents vow cooperation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Obama and Xi Jinping Say They’ll Work Together to Save Environment|Ben Leung|November 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Can you tell me the name of this flower which I found in your greenhouse.
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The Iris is to the garden what the Orchid is to the greenhouse.
Amateur Gardencraft|Eben E. Rexford
In this country eucalyptus seeds are reared in a greenhouse.
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Studies have been made upon the comparative germination of tree seeds in the field and the greenhouse.
Our National Forests|Richard H. Douai Boerker
McLean visited a greenhouse and bought an armload of its finest products; but Freckles would have none of them.
Freckles|Gene Stratton-Porter

British Dictionary definitions for greenhouse

greenhouse

/ (ˈɡriːnˌhaʊs) /

noun

a building with transparent walls and roof, usually of glass, for the cultivation and exhibition of plants under controlled conditions

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