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ALL meanings of glasshouse

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  • noun glasshouse A greenhouse. 1
  • noun glasshouse greenhouse, hothouse 1
  • noun glasshouse glassworks, factory where glass is made 1
  • noun plural glasshouse a glassworks. 1
  • noun plural glasshouse Chiefly British. a green-house. 1
  • noun plural glasshouse British Informal. a military prison. 1
  • countable noun glasshouse A glasshouse is a greenhouse, especially a large one which is used for the commercial production of fruit, flowers, or vegetables. 0
  • noun glasshouse a glass building, esp a greenhouse, used for growing plants in protected or controlled conditions 0
  • noun glasshouse a military detention centre 0
  • abbreviation GLASSHOUSE greenhouse 0
  • noun glasshouse A building made of glass 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 (chiefly commercial). 0
  • noun glasshouse A building where glass or glassware is manufactured. 0
  • noun glasshouse (Britain military slang)  A military prison. 0
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