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glasshouse

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
" Glasshouse " is a 1975 R&B single by The Temptations . It was written by Motown songwriting team Charlemagne , which consisted of James Carmichael, Ronald Miller and Kathy Wakefield . The song appeared on the album A Song for You . All five Temptations ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a building with glass walls and roof; for the cultivation and exhibition of plants under controlled conditions [syn: greenhouse , nursery ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A building made of glass in which plants are grown more rapidly than outside such a building by the action of heat from the sun, this heat being trapped inside by the glass (chiefly commercial). 2 A building where glass or glassware is manufactured.

Usage examples of glasshouse.

From these caverns leapt the motive force of a dispensary in Chemnitz, a glasshouse in Shropshire, a callbox in Billings, Montana.

She told him how the Construct Council was sure the moths were in Riverskin, hiding in the Glasshouse.

First there was a rending crack, then a long-drawn-out series of crystalline crashes like a million glasshouses being demolished.

Rooms had been added to the tops and backsides of buildings, styled like weird miniature effigies of the stepped pyramid in the centre of the Glasshouse.

You can bet your arse the Glasshouse wouldnt mean shit without New Crobuzon.