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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
hothouse
    n 1: a greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing
         manner [syn: conservatory, hothouse, indoor garden]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Hothouse \Hot"house`\, n.
   1. A house kept warm to shelter tender plants and shrubs from
      the cold air; a place in which the plants of warmer
      climates may be reared, and fruits ripened.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. A bagnio, or bathing house. [Obs.] --Shak.
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   3. A brothel; a bagnio. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
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   4. (Pottery) A heated room for drying green ware.
      [1913 Webster]
Thesaurus Results for hothouse:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
babied, cloche, coddled, cold frame, conservatory, coolhouse, dainty, delicate, forcing bed, forcing house, forcing pit, fragile, frail, glasshouse, greenhouse, hotbed, lathhouse, nursery, orangery, pampered, pinery, seedbed, sensitive, sheltered, shielded, spoiled, summerhouse
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