What is the meaning of Hothouse?

  • (n.) A bagnio or bathing house.
  • (n.) A heated room for drying green ware.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A brothel; a bagnio.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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