forcing house
forcing house · forcing houses
A place where plants are forced into maturity sooner than would naturally happenA place where plants are forced into maturity sooner than would naturally happen.
Meaning
2 sensesA place where plants are forced into maturity sooner than would naturally happen.
(figuratively)Any place that promotes early development.
Forms
plural: forcing houses| Singular | forcing house |
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Word family
1 related wordsRelatedhothouse
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.