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glasshouse

[glas-hous, glahs-] / ˈglæsˌhaʊs, ˈglɑs- /
NOUN
conservatory
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“There’s something out there that thinks a corpse flower smells like heaven,” said Marc Hachadourian, director of glasshouse horticulture at the New York Botanical Garden, which hosted a corpse flower bloom last year.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

They added this yeast to bee diets and tested it over three months in controlled glasshouse experiments.

From Science Daily Mar. 27, 2026

"We should be committing to onshore production, so glasshouse production of cucumbers and tomatoes, we should be trying to build that here," he said.

From BBC Feb. 26, 2023

“Santa Maria will be one of the last growing areas in California before everything probably goes glasshouse or indoor in places like Detroit or Chicago or New Jersey,” Harrison said.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 26, 2022

They have already begun to build a glasshouse a little way from our fort, with a large furnace for glassmaking.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

Under Theodore Roosevelt, putting up the West Wing required removing glasshouses used for growing plants.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 23, 2025

"This is probably the plant that I worry about moving the most," says Thomas Pickering, head of glasshouses.

From BBC Jul. 15, 2025

After growing in glasshouses, harvesting and polishing the rice grains, they found that the vitamin B1 content was increased in rice grains from these lines.

From Science Daily Apr. 11, 2024

Crafted in Lancashire, England, where the company, Hartley Botanic, has been manufacturing glasshouses since 1938, the Patio is available in 15 colors. $4,400 at hartley-botanic.com.

From Seattle Times Nov. 20, 2023

It encompassed not only the vast archives, but the university, too, together with laboratories and glasshouses, medical theaters and music rooms, and even a celestial observatory.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor




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