In various senses of stove, n.1: A hot-air bath; a heated room or chamber; a hothouse for plants; a closed fireplace. Obsolete.
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| 释义 | the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > greenhouse or glass-house > hothouse (9) stow1614 In various senses of stove, n.1: A hot-air bath; a heated room or chamber; a hothouse for plants; a closed fireplace. Obsolete. hothouse1629 A greenhouse kept artificially heated for the cultivation of plants from warmer climates, and of native flowers and fruits out of season. stove1697 A hothouse for plants. hot wall1739 a wall containing built-in flues to warm it and so assist in ripening the fruit of trees trained against it. moist stove1806 a hothouse heated with a moist heat. Cf. stove, n.1 3. tan-stove1828 a bark-stove; also, a hot-house with a bark-bed. warm-house1843 a kind of hot-house. stove-house1860 = sense 3. Subcategories:— case in (1) |
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