greenhouse

See also: Greenhouse

English

A small greenhouse typical of those found in private gardens

The interior of a large commercial greenhouse

Etymology

From green +‎ house ("house for growing greens"), in reference to the produce grown within.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɹiːnˌhaʊs/

• Audio (AU):

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Noun

greenhouse (plural greenhouses)

1. A building used to grow plants, particularly one with large glass windows or plastic sheeting to trap heat from sunlight even in intemperate seasons or climates.
2. (UK military slang, dated) The glass of a plane's cockpit.
   • 1941 March 24, Life, p. 85:

     In the slang of the Royal Air Force man, the cockpit of his plane is the ‘pulpit’ or ‘office’, the glass covering over it the ‘greenhouse’.

Synonyms

• (building used to grow plants out of season): glasshouse (UK commercial operations), plant-house

Hypernyms

• house

Derived terms

• greenhouse bug
• greenhouse effect
• greenhouse gas

Translations

building in which plants are grown more quickly than outside

• Armenian: ջերմոց (hy) (ǰermocʻ)
• Basque: berotegi
• Belarusian: цяплі́ца f (cjaplíca), аранжарэ́я f (aranžaréja)
• Bulgarian: парни́к m (parník)
• Catalan: hivernacle (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 溫室／温室 (zh) (wēnshì), 温室 (zh) (wēnshì)

• Czech: skleník (cs) m
• Danish: drivhus (da) n
• Dutch: kas (nl) f
• Esperanto: forcejo
• Finnish: kasvihuone (fi)
• French: serre (fr) f
• Galician: invernadoiro (gl) m
• Georgian: სათბური (satburi), ორანჟერეა (oranžerea)
• German: Gewächshaus (de) n, Treibhaus (de) n
• Greek: θερμοκήπιο (el) n (thermokípio)
• Hebrew: חֲמָמָה (he) (ẖamamá)
• Hungarian: üvegház (hu), melegház (hu)
• Icelandic: gróðurhús (is) n, vetrargarður m, gróðurskáli m
• Ido: teplico (io)
• Italian: serra (it) f
• Japanese: 温室 (ja) (おんしつ, onshitsu), ハウス (hausu)
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• Kazakh: жылыжай (jylyjai)
• Korean: 온실 (ko) (onsil)
• Macedonian: оранжерија f (oranžerija), стаклена градина f (staklena gradina)
• Norman: sèrre f (Jersey), greenhouse f (Guernsey), spàn m (Guernsey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: drivhus (no) n, veksthus n

  Nynorsk: drivhus n, veksthus n, voksterhus n

• Polish: szklarnia (pl) f
• Portuguese: viveiro (pt) m, estufa (pt) f
• Romanian: seră (ro) f
• Russian: тепли́ца (ru) f (teplíca), парни́к (ru) m (parník), оранжере́я (ru) f (oranžeréja)
• Scottish Gaelic: taigh-ghlainne m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: стакленик m

  Roman: staklenik (sh) m

• Slovak: skleník m
• Spanish: invernadero (es) m
• Swedish: växthus (sv) n, drivhus (sv) n
• Thai: เรือนกระจก (rʉʉan-grà-jòk)
• Turkish: sera (tr)
• Ukrainian: тепли́ця f (teplýcja), оранжере́я (uk) f (oranžeréja)
• Vietnamese: nhà kính

Verb

1. (transitive) To place (plants) in a greenhouse.

See also

• cloche
• hothouse
• orangery
• polyhouse
• polytunnel

Further reading

• greenhouse on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English greenhouse.

Noun

greenhouse f (plural greenhouses)

1. (Guernsey) greenhouse

Synonyms

• spàn