Greenhouse

Noun

 * 1) A building traditionally made of glass, but now also made from plastics such as polyethylene, in which plants are grown more rapidly than outside such a building by the action of heat from the sun, this heat being trapped inside by the glass or plastic.

Synonyms

 * glasshouse

Derived terms

 * greenhouse bug
 * greenhouse effect
 * greenhouse gas

Thesaurus
alcove, arbor, bower, cloche, cold frame, conservatory, coolhouse, forcing bed, forcing house, forcing pit, gazebo, glasshouse, hotbed, hothouse, kiosk, lathhouse, nursery, orangery, pergola, pinery, retreat, seedbed, summerhouse

Translations

 * Czech:
 * Danish: drivhus
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: חֲמָמָה
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 温室 (onshitsu)


 * Norwegian: drivhus
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: viveiro, estufa
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, парник
 * Scottish Gaelic: taigh-ghlainne
 * Serbian: staklenik
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, drivhus
 * Turkish: