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hothouse
[hot-hous]
noun
plural
hothousesan artificially heated greenhouse for the cultivation of tender plants.
adjective
of, relating to, or noting a plant grown in a hothouse, or so fragile as to be capable of being grown only in a hothouse.
overprotected, artificial, or unnaturally delicate.
hothouse
/ ˈɒˌʊ /
noun
a greenhouse in which the temperature is maintained at a fixed level above that of the surroundings
( as modifier )
a hothouse plant
an environment that encourages rapid development
( as modifier )
a hot-house atmosphere
an environment where there is great pressure
showjumping is a tough, hothouse world
informal(modifier) sensitive or delicate
a hothouse temperament
Example Sentences
In the region affected by the Eaton fire, officials responsible for mosquito control say they do not have the funds needed to provide sufficient treatment for all the pools that are now possible mosquito hothouses.
That pressure is very often from players and managers in the fierce hothouse of elite-level football, trickling right down to the grassroots.
When they bring these cases, they have the Federalist Society doing the research and creating the sort of legal hothouse theories that make up the amicus briefs that they also fund.
Many who follow the sport would agree that few coaches last long in those overpriced hothouse environments.
Conservatives have also mastered the intricacies of circuit-shopping, the dark art of placing the nuttiest legal theories cooked up in Federalist Society hothouses before the most rabidly ideological judges.
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