greenhouse
A building used to grow plants, particularly one with large glass windows or plastic sheeting to trap heat from sunlight even in intemperate seasons or climates.
Other meanings
The glass of a plane's cockpit.
A structure that shields the operating table to protect against bacteria.
A kind of
- building
Kinds of greenhouse
- indoor garden
Related words
- greenhouse bug
- greenhouse cockpit
- greenhouse effect
- greenhouse-friendly
- greenhouse gas
- greenhouselike
- greenhouse slug
- greenhouse warming
- nongreenhouse
- screenhouse
- worldhouse
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “greenhouse” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.