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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

“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

More than 40,000 plants have been decanted from the category A glasshouse ahead of a multi-million pound upgrade.

From BBC Sep. 24, 2021

“Number eight, getting caught stealing grapes from the glasshouse in the kitchen garden. That’s another birching. ’Course we’re all too old now for birchings and for grape-stealing.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

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

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 23, 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's why we are seeing many of the glasshouses across the country mothballed. They should be producing high quality food, peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, to deal with this shortage."

From BBC Mar. 5, 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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