greenhousen.

Brit.

/ˈɡriːnhaʊs/, U.S.

/ˈɡrinˌ(h)aʊs/

Forms: see green adj. and n.¹ and house n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: green n.¹, house n.¹; green adj., house n.¹

Etymology: Partly (in sense 1) < green n.¹ + house n.¹, and partly (in sense 2) < green adj. + house n.¹ In sense 3 a metaphorical development from sense 1.

1. A structure with walls and roof made chiefly of glass or translucent plastic in which plants requiring regulated climatic conditions are grown. Cf. glasshouse n. 2.

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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > greenhouse or glass-house

glasshousea1633

greenhouse1664

house1726

winter garden1736

plant house1800

serre1819

glass1838

tunnel house1973

1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 63 in Sylva Set your..windows, and doors of the Green-houses and Conservatories open.

a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1683 (1955) IV. 347 Greene-houses for oranges and Myrtils.

1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 75 Green~houses are large Piles of Building like Galleries..for preserving Orange-Trees, and other Plants..during the Winter.

1789 J. Banks Let. July in Last Voy. Guardian (1990) 13 Whenever it rains & is moderate, the top of the Greenhouse must be set open.

1818 W. B. Page Page's Prodromus ii. 115 In the Dry-Stove, the heat should be rather stronger than in the Orangery or Greenhouse, and with less Air.

1858 G. Glenny Gardener's Every-day Bk. (new ed.) 94/1 The house ought now to be enriched by plants from the greenhouse and hothouse.

1920 Jrnl. Accountancy Feb. 98 Greenhouses are, in general, operated for growing either cut and potted flowers or market garden produce.

1964 A. S. Byatt Shadow of Sun viii. 193 Henry went into the greenhouse, tapped the thermometer, wandered up and down between the hothouse plants, in the heavy, musty tomato smell.

2006 Grow your Own July 31/1 If you haven't got the luxury of a greenhouse or polytunnel, you'll have to plump for ridge cucumbers—varieties which can be grown outdoors.

2. Ceramics. An area in which ‘green’ or unfired ware is left to dry before being placed in the kiln. See green adj. 6e.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > pottery manufacturing equipment > [noun] > for drying ware

greenhouse1825

green room1878

1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 468 All the articles made in the clay by these various processes..are placed on boards, and left to dry by the temperature of the apartment where they were made, or put into a drying-house, green-house, or stove.

1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 614 The [bisque] ware being finished from the hands of the potter is brought by him upon boards to the ‘green-house’, so called from its being the receptacle for ware in the ‘green’ or unfired state.

1901 E. A. Sandeman Notes Manuf. Earthenware xxix. 350 From the potters the ware will go on to the greenhouse and from thence to the biscuit oven.

2005 L. Pine Goss & Souvenir Heraldic China 9 The green ware, as it was known, stayed in the green house for up to a week to dry out thoroughly and have blemishes removed.

3. Aeronautics slang. The glass cockpit cover of an aeroplane.

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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > fuselage > cockpit or flight deck > transparent cover over

canopy1939

greenhouse1941

bubble1944

1941 Life 24 Mar. 85/1 In the slang of the Royal Air Force man, the cockpit of his plane is the ‘pulpit’ or ‘office’, the glass covering over it the ‘greenhouse’.

1942 Gen 1 Sept. 14/1 A fighter pilot..pulls the ‘greenhouse’—cockpit cover—over him.

1944 Word Study Apr. 4/2 Greenhouse. This is what pilots call the glass cockpit covering over observation and similar planes.

1947 W. H. Auden Age of Anxiety (1948) i. 18 ‘Why have They killed me?’ wondered Bert, our Greenhouse gunner.

2008 Air Med. Jrnl. 27 21/2 Postflight inspection revealed a baseball-size hole in the copilot greenhouse window.

Compounds

C1. General attributive, as greenhouse cactus, greenhouse climate, greenhouse plant, greenhouse shrub, etc.

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1763 J. Wheeler Botanist's & Gardener's New Dict. 329/2 The Greenhouse plants must be removed into their shelter as the danger of cold approaches.

1797 T. Holcroft tr. F. L. Stolberg Trav. (ed. 2) III. lxxx. 232 The cistus with us is a green-house plant.

1845 Florist's Jrnl. 6 15 A hardy and very pretty greenhouse shrub.

1858 G. Glenny Gardener's Every-day Bk. (new ed.) 140/1 Greenhouse Cacti and Epiphyllums.

1924 G. Peltier & R. W. Goss Control Equipm. for Stud. Rel. Environm. to Dis. (Univ. Nebraska) 4 The equipment..can be operated for the most part by a trained greenhouse man.

1975 Pop. Mech. Sept. 56/2 Because window sash remains in place, you assure the greenhouse climate being independent of house climate.

1997 J. J. Hanan Greenhouses ii. 27 There are essentially two basic methods for greenhouse arrangement, separate structures or gutter-connected.

C2.

† greenhouse bug n. Obsolete chiefly U.S. = soft scale n. at soft adj. Compounds 2c.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Coccidae or genus Coccus > coccus hesperidum (turtle-insect)

greenhouse bug1751

turtle-insect1896

1751 J. Hill Rev. Wks. Royal Soc. vi. vi. 151 The Kermes is an Insect..which our Gardiners have called the Greenhouse Bug.

1802 A. F. M. Willich Domest. Encycl. II. 21/2 The Coccus hesperidum, or green-house bug,..chiefly infests orange, and other plants in green-houses.

1867 Gardener's Monthly Jan. 26/2 It is one of the 43 species of the genus Coccus, (order Hemiptera), and is commonly known as the greenhouse bug.

greenhouse-friendly adj. that (supposedly) involves or is responsible for minimal emissions of greenhouse gases.

ΚΠ

1989 Financial Times 18 July 18/4 It argued that nuclear power had a role to play in a ‘greenhouse friendly’ electricity supply industry.

1997 N.Y. Times 1 Dec. f8 It would force countries, companies and consumers to adopt exotic greenhouse-friendly technologies like fuel cells.

2006 F. Pearce When Rivers run Dry 144 Once thought of as one of the world's most greenhouse-friendly nations, French Guiana has a small population, and its industrial emissions are minuscule.

greenhouse gas n. an atmospheric gas that absorbs infrared radiation, thereby contributing to the greenhouse effect.Significant greenhouse gases include carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and water vapour, and these are often considered to be a major cause of global warming.

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1975 J. E. Lovelock & I. R. Kaplan in Proc. Royal Soc. B. 189 178 The ‘greenhouse gases’ which might be present in the neutral environment would be NH₃, H₂S and perhaps also dimethyl sulphide.

1985 Times 18 Feb. 14/5 The warming effect caused by increasing levels of the ‘greenhouse’ gases such as carbon dioxide and methane.

1998 Economist 21 Mar. 69/3 Cheaper motoring will increase America's emission of greenhouse gases, of course.

2007 Guardian 10 Sept. 15/3 Curb emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide from households and consumers.

greenhouse slug n. a slug, Milax gagates (family Milacidae), native to southern Europe but introduced widely elsewhere and frequently a pest in greenhouses.

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1897 Market Garden (Minneapolis) July 15/1 I have found that the common greenhouse slug disseminates the micro-organism to which this [sc. brown rot of cabbage] is due.

1994 D. G. Gordon Field Guide to Slug 18 Unintentionally carried to the Northwest from Mediterranean climes, the greenhouse slug thrives in a warm, stable environment.

greenhouse warming n. (a) the action or practice of increasing or maintaining warmth in a greenhouse; (b) a gradual increase in the temperature of a planet's atmosphere due to the greenhouse effect; cf. global warming n.

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1873 Gardener's Monthly Oct. 305/1 There are innumerable things in greenhouse building and greenhouse warming, in plant growing and fruit culture, the labor on which is absolutely thrown away.

1974 Ambio 3 Abstracts Growing fossil fuel consumption increases atmospheric carbon dioxide and its ‘greenhouse’ warming.

1991 N.Y. Times 10 Jan. a1/2 Other scientists noted the difficulty of detecting the tiny initial signal of greenhouse warming amid the much greater temperature swings caused by nature.

2006 J. Cervantes Marijuana Hort. 120/2 Then there is the low-tech method of greenhouse warming: compost.

2008 J. L. Powell Dead Pool xiii. 172 Without greenhouse warming, our planet would be uninhabitable.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	greenhouse
释义	greenhousen. Brit. /ˈɡriːnhaʊs/, U.S. /ˈɡrinˌ(h)aʊs/ Forms: see green adj. and n.¹ and house n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: green n.¹, house n.¹; green adj., house n.¹ Etymology: Partly (in sense 1) < green n.¹ + house n.¹, and partly (in sense 2) < green adj. + house n.¹ In sense 3 a metaphorical development from sense 1. 1. A structure with walls and roof made chiefly of glass or translucent plastic in which plants requiring regulated climatic conditions are grown. Cf. glasshouse n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > greenhouse or glass-house glasshousea1633 greenhouse1664 house1726 winter garden1736 plant house1800 serre1819 glass1838 tunnel house1973 1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 63 in Sylva Set your..windows, and doors of the Green-houses and Conservatories open. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1683 (1955) IV. 347 Greene-houses for oranges and Myrtils. 1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 75 Green~houses are large Piles of Building like Galleries..for preserving Orange-Trees, and other Plants..during the Winter. 1789 J. Banks Let. July in Last Voy. Guardian (1990) 13 Whenever it rains & is moderate, the top of the Greenhouse must be set open. 1818 W. B. Page Page's Prodromus ii. 115 In the Dry-Stove, the heat should be rather stronger than in the Orangery or Greenhouse, and with less Air. 1858 G. Glenny Gardener's Every-day Bk. (new ed.) 94/1 The house ought now to be enriched by plants from the greenhouse and hothouse. 1920 Jrnl. Accountancy Feb. 98 Greenhouses are, in general, operated for growing either cut and potted flowers or market garden produce. 1964 A. S. Byatt Shadow of Sun viii. 193 Henry went into the greenhouse, tapped the thermometer, wandered up and down between the hothouse plants, in the heavy, musty tomato smell. 2006 Grow your Own July 31/1 If you haven't got the luxury of a greenhouse or polytunnel, you'll have to plump for ridge cucumbers—varieties which can be grown outdoors. 2. Ceramics. An area in which ‘green’ or unfired ware is left to dry before being placed in the kiln. See green adj. 6e. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > pottery manufacturing equipment > [noun] > for drying ware greenhouse1825 green room1878 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 468 All the articles made in the clay by these various processes..are placed on boards, and left to dry by the temperature of the apartment where they were made, or put into a drying-house, green-house, or stove. 1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) III. 614 The [bisque] ware being finished from the hands of the potter is brought by him upon boards to the ‘green-house’, so called from its being the receptacle for ware in the ‘green’ or unfired state. 1901 E. A. Sandeman Notes Manuf. Earthenware xxix. 350 From the potters the ware will go on to the greenhouse and from thence to the biscuit oven. 2005 L. Pine Goss & Souvenir Heraldic China 9 The green ware, as it was known, stayed in the green house for up to a week to dry out thoroughly and have blemishes removed. 3. Aeronautics slang. The glass cockpit cover of an aeroplane. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > fuselage > cockpit or flight deck > transparent cover over canopy1939 greenhouse1941 bubble1944 1941 Life 24 Mar. 85/1 In the slang of the Royal Air Force man, the cockpit of his plane is the ‘pulpit’ or ‘office’, the glass covering over it the ‘greenhouse’. 1942 Gen 1 Sept. 14/1 A fighter pilot..pulls the ‘greenhouse’—cockpit cover—over him. 1944 Word Study Apr. 4/2 Greenhouse. This is what pilots call the glass cockpit covering over observation and similar planes. 1947 W. H. Auden Age of Anxiety (1948) i. 18 ‘Why have They killed me?’ wondered Bert, our Greenhouse gunner. 2008 Air Med. Jrnl. 27 21/2 Postflight inspection revealed a baseball-size hole in the copilot greenhouse window. Compounds C1. General attributive, as greenhouse cactus, greenhouse climate, greenhouse plant, greenhouse shrub, etc. ΚΠ 1763 J. Wheeler Botanist's & Gardener's New Dict. 329/2 The Greenhouse plants must be removed into their shelter as the danger of cold approaches. 1797 T. Holcroft tr. F. L. Stolberg Trav. (ed. 2) III. lxxx. 232 The cistus with us is a green-house plant. 1845 Florist's Jrnl. 6 15 A hardy and very pretty greenhouse shrub. 1858 G. Glenny Gardener's Every-day Bk. (new ed.) 140/1 Greenhouse Cacti and Epiphyllums. 1924 G. Peltier & R. W. Goss Control Equipm. for Stud. Rel. Environm. to Dis. (Univ. Nebraska) 4 The equipment..can be operated for the most part by a trained greenhouse man. 1975 Pop. Mech. Sept. 56/2 Because window sash remains in place, you assure the greenhouse climate being independent of house climate. 1997 J. J. Hanan Greenhouses ii. 27 There are essentially two basic methods for greenhouse arrangement, separate structures or gutter-connected. C2. † greenhouse bug n. Obsolete chiefly U.S. = soft scale n. at soft adj. Compounds 2c. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Coccidae or genus Coccus > coccus hesperidum (turtle-insect) greenhouse bug1751 turtle-insect1896 1751 J. Hill Rev. Wks. Royal Soc. vi. vi. 151 The Kermes is an Insect..which our Gardiners have called the Greenhouse Bug. 1802 A. F. M. Willich Domest. Encycl. II. 21/2 The Coccus hesperidum, or green-house bug,..chiefly infests orange, and other plants in green-houses. 1867 Gardener's Monthly Jan. 26/2 It is one of the 43 species of the genus Coccus, (order Hemiptera), and is commonly known as the greenhouse bug. greenhouse-friendly adj. that (supposedly) involves or is responsible for minimal emissions of greenhouse gases. ΚΠ 1989 Financial Times 18 July 18/4 It argued that nuclear power had a role to play in a ‘greenhouse friendly’ electricity supply industry. 1997 N.Y. Times 1 Dec. f8 It would force countries, companies and consumers to adopt exotic greenhouse-friendly technologies like fuel cells. 2006 F. Pearce When Rivers run Dry 144 Once thought of as one of the world's most greenhouse-friendly nations, French Guiana has a small population, and its industrial emissions are minuscule. greenhouse gas n. an atmospheric gas that absorbs infrared radiation, thereby contributing to the greenhouse effect.Significant greenhouse gases include carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, and water vapour, and these are often considered to be a major cause of global warming. ΚΠ 1975 J. E. Lovelock & I. R. Kaplan in Proc. Royal Soc. B. 189 178 The ‘greenhouse gases’ which might be present in the neutral environment would be NH₃, H₂S and perhaps also dimethyl sulphide. 1985 Times 18 Feb. 14/5 The warming effect caused by increasing levels of the ‘greenhouse’ gases such as carbon dioxide and methane. 1998 Economist 21 Mar. 69/3 Cheaper motoring will increase America's emission of greenhouse gases, of course. 2007 Guardian 10 Sept. 15/3 Curb emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide from households and consumers. greenhouse slug n. a slug, Milax gagates (family Milacidae), native to southern Europe but introduced widely elsewhere and frequently a pest in greenhouses. ΚΠ 1897 Market Garden (Minneapolis) July 15/1 I have found that the common greenhouse slug disseminates the micro-organism to which this [sc. brown rot of cabbage] is due. 1994 D. G. Gordon Field Guide to Slug 18 Unintentionally carried to the Northwest from Mediterranean climes, the greenhouse slug thrives in a warm, stable environment. greenhouse warming n. (a) the action or practice of increasing or maintaining warmth in a greenhouse; (b) a gradual increase in the temperature of a planet's atmosphere due to the greenhouse effect; cf. global warming n. ΚΠ 1873 Gardener's Monthly Oct. 305/1 There are innumerable things in greenhouse building and greenhouse warming, in plant growing and fruit culture, the labor on which is absolutely thrown away. 1974 Ambio 3 Abstracts Growing fossil fuel consumption increases atmospheric carbon dioxide and its ‘greenhouse’ warming. 1991 N.Y. Times 10 Jan. a1/2 Other scientists noted the difficulty of detecting the tiny initial signal of greenhouse warming amid the much greater temperature swings caused by nature. 2006 J. Cervantes Marijuana Hort. 120/2 Then there is the low-tech method of greenhouse warming: compost. 2008 J. L. Powell Dead Pool xiii. 172 Without greenhouse warming, our planet would be uninhabitable. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1664
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