Definition of hothouse plant in English:

hothouse plant

noun

1A plant grown in a hothouse.
a hybrid first grown as a hothouse plant in England
Example sentencesExamples
- This impression is enhanced by the way the hothouse plants are beginning to grow through and around the sculptures.
- Hothouse plants that were taken outdoors to decorate the garden or terrace in the summer months were acclimatized for a period in the unheated greenhouse.
- The stand was created to bring nature indoors, and one might draw a parallel between a hothouse plant and a landscape painting—each is an aspect of commodified nature.
- There are plans for deep-freeze capsules carrying medicines or human organs for transplants and even heated ones for hothouse plants or food.
- On Christmas Day 1848, he sailed east in search of hothouse plants and exotic shrubs.
- He is collecting data on the neighbourhood plant thefts and is urging all home gardeners to be wary of buying "hot" hothouse plants.
- My mistake was that unknowingly I always chose difficult specimens, hothouse plants in every sense of the word.
- A hybrid first grown as a hothouse plant in England, the bean's waxy texture earned it its name.
- In the numerous pits and frames, popular exotics, such as the orange, camellia, and numerous other greenhouse and hothouse plants, were increased by hundreds.
- Many of the miniatures sold at florists or checkouts around the country are hothouse plants that won't take any cold at all.
1. 1.1 A delicate or fragile person or thing.
  we're all a lot of hothouse plants just crying for attention
  Example sentencesExamples
  You get the feeling we're all a lot of hothouse plants just crying for attention.
  The contemplative life is unfortunately too often thought of in terms purely of enclosure, and monks are conceived of as hothouse plants.
  The journal preached popular revolution, and incidentally dismissed Herzen's radicalism as a frail hothouse plant.
  No court in the land would allow his second will, as it had been composed by a man with the mental abilities of a small hothouse plant.
  At the present, North America has only seven such small monasteries, each a hothouse plant existing in a small bubble of lay support.
  The flowers of his rhetoric were hothouse plants.
  These horses are trained like they are hothouse plants instead of the way it used to be.
  He conceded the existence of the market, but he argued that it was a hothouse plant rooted in the easily depleted soil of slavery.
  Darrow once described him in court as a hothouse plant.
  He is a hothouse plant—or was that potted plant?

词汇	hothouse plant
释义	Definition of hothouse plant in English: hothouse plant noun 1A plant grown in a hothouse. a hybrid first grown as a hothouse plant in England Example sentencesExamples This impression is enhanced by the way the hothouse plants are beginning to grow through and around the sculptures. Hothouse plants that were taken outdoors to decorate the garden or terrace in the summer months were acclimatized for a period in the unheated greenhouse. The stand was created to bring nature indoors, and one might draw a parallel between a hothouse plant and a landscape painting—each is an aspect of commodified nature. There are plans for deep-freeze capsules carrying medicines or human organs for transplants and even heated ones for hothouse plants or food. On Christmas Day 1848, he sailed east in search of hothouse plants and exotic shrubs. He is collecting data on the neighbourhood plant thefts and is urging all home gardeners to be wary of buying "hot" hothouse plants. My mistake was that unknowingly I always chose difficult specimens, hothouse plants in every sense of the word. A hybrid first grown as a hothouse plant in England, the bean's waxy texture earned it its name. In the numerous pits and frames, popular exotics, such as the orange, camellia, and numerous other greenhouse and hothouse plants, were increased by hundreds. Many of the miniatures sold at florists or checkouts around the country are hothouse plants that won't take any cold at all. 1.1 A delicate or fragile person or thing. we're all a lot of hothouse plants just crying for attention Example sentencesExamples You get the feeling we're all a lot of hothouse plants just crying for attention. The contemplative life is unfortunately too often thought of in terms purely of enclosure, and monks are conceived of as hothouse plants. The journal preached popular revolution, and incidentally dismissed Herzen's radicalism as a frail hothouse plant. No court in the land would allow his second will, as it had been composed by a man with the mental abilities of a small hothouse plant. At the present, North America has only seven such small monasteries, each a hothouse plant existing in a small bubble of lay support. The flowers of his rhetoric were hothouse plants. These horses are trained like they are hothouse plants instead of the way it used to be. He conceded the existence of the market, but he argued that it was a hothouse plant rooted in the easily depleted soil of slavery. Darrow once described him in court as a hothouse plant. He is a hothouse plant—or was that potted* plant?*
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