Definitions for hothouses

hothouses hot·house

Spelling: [hot-hous]
IPA: /ˈhɒtˌhaʊs/

Hothouses is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 183 anagrams from letters in hothouses (ehhoosstu).

Definitions for hothouses

noun

  1. an artificially heated greenhouse for the cultivation of tender plants.

adjective

  1. 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.
  2. overprotected, artificial, or unnaturally delicate.

Origin of hothouses

First recorded in 1505-15; hot + house

Examples for hothouses

hothouse by Boris Kachka A romp through the history of venerable publisher Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.

She always looked like a hothouse flower, and now she is simply frail.

No; it is still the spirits' home—a hothouse for sickly plants.

As in a hothouse, a marvellous vegetation flourished in the carcass.

Outside the hothouse of that environment, he is making sense—though his is a message that many conservatives may not want to hear.

It is as hot as fire here, and the park has that steamy smell that a hothouse has.

It is with the Hindu mind as if a seed were placed in a hothouse.

All the stock of hothouse and stove plants at Hartwell Priory.

Just imagine, hothouse strawberries at one and sixpence a basket!

If Saudi Arabia is a hothouse flower, then Americans have helped build the greenhouse.

Word Value for hothouses
Scrable

14

Words with friends

13

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