hothouse
Heated plant building
A hothouse is a heated greenhouse for growing plants that need warmth year-round.
The word extends to any environment of artificial intensity: a hothouse atmosphere, a hothouse of creativity.
As an adjective, hothouse describes something cultivated under protected conditions, often suggesting fragility or overprotection: a hothouse flower who wilted at the first challenge.
Glass-walled room for light
- nurseryRoom for infants
- seedlingsNewly germinated plants
- propagationAct of spreading widely
- humidityMoisture in atmosphere
temperature · ventilation · plants · tropical · botanical · flora · climate-controlled · orchids
Lavished with indulgence
- coddledExcessively sheltered or indulged
- overprotectedGuarded to excess
- insulatedShielded from heat loss
- cocoonedWrapped protectively, sheltered
cosseted · cloistered · privileged · naive · inexperienced · delicate · rarefied · bubble
Strikingly unusual, foreign-seeming
- humidContaining much moisture
- steamyHot, moist, or erotic
- lushRichly abundant in growth
- jungleDense tropical forest
palms · orchids · ferns · banana · mango · papaya · equatorial · monsoon
Abnormally hot, overheated
- pressuredUrged with insistence
- intenseExtreme in degree
- chargedFormally accused of crime
- acceleratedIncreased in velocity
forced · artificial · unnatural · precocious · overheated · stifling · claustrophobic · competitive
Cultivating plants systematically
- propagationAct of spreading widely
- seedlingsNewly germinated plants
- graftingJoining tissues to grow together
- hydroponicsPlant cultivation in nutrient water
nursery · fertilization · pruning · bedding · soil · compost · planting · irrigation
solarium
Glass-walled room for light
- nurseryRoom for infants
- seedlingsNewly germinated plants
- propagationAct of spreading widely
humidity · temperature · ventilation · plants · tropical · botanical · flora · climate-controlled · orchids · palms
pampered
Lavished with indulgence
- coddledExcessively sheltered or indulged
- overprotectedGuarded to excess
- insulatedShielded from heat loss
cocooned · cosseted · cloistered · privileged · naive · inexperienced · delicate · rarefied · bubble · ivory tower
exotic
Strikingly unusual, foreign-seeming
jungle · palms · orchids · ferns · banana · mango · papaya · equatorial · monsoon · rainforest
fevered
Abnormally hot, overheated
accelerated · forced · artificial · unnatural · precocious · overheated · stifling · claustrophobic · competitive · high-pressure
horticulture
Cultivating plants systematically
- propagationAct of spreading widely
- seedlingsNewly germinated plants
- graftingJoining tissues to grow together
hydroponics · nursery · fertilization · pruning · bedding · soil · compost · planting · irrigation · organic
- outbuildingsshed, sheds, garden shed, tool shed, toolshed
- warm spacessauna, steam room, furnace room, boiler room, warming hut
- Climate Erasice age, glacial period, interglacial, Little Ice Age, cooling period
- prefab structuresprefab cabin, modular home, kit home, container home, shipping container home
- conservatoriessunroom, orangery, winter garden, solarium, garden room
- conservatoryorangery, sunroom, solarium, winter garden, garden room
hothousewild
Not domesticated or controlled
open field · natural habitat · wilderness · open air · uncultivated
hothouseicehouse
Frozen block repository
cold storage · freezer · cold room · cold frame · refrigerator
hothouseschool of hard knocks
Education through suffering
real world · sink or swim · trial by fire · rough and tumble · unsheltered