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glasshouse

[ glas-hous, glahs- ]

noun

plural glasshouses
  1. a glassworks.
  2. Chiefly British. a green-house.
  3. British Informal. a military prison.


glasshouse

/ ˈɡ±ôɑ˲õËŒ³ó²¹ÊŠ²õ /

noun

  1. a glass building, esp a greenhouse, used for growing plants in protected or controlled conditions
  2. obsolete.
    a military detention centre
  3. another word for glassworks
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Origin of glasshouse1

First recorded in 1350–1400, glasshouse is from Middle English glas hous. See glass, house
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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.

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The two sky lakes were frozen solid, and the trio of glasshouses glittered with a light sheen of ice.

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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.

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Bringing us back to earth with a bump, Mr Denham said a curtain was drawn over the glasshouses when the temperature hits a certain point.

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"We then engineered these into crops, and if that results in an improvement in the glasshouse, then we take it to our experimental farm and test it in a real-world environment," says Prof Long.

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