noun
- a heated greenhouse for growing plants
- an environment that encourages rapid growth or development
Usage: figurative
adjective
- artificially encouraged or accelerated in development
Examples
- The gardener grew exotic orchids in the hothouse during winter.
- The university became a hothouse for scientific innovation.
- She raised the seedlings in a hothouse before transplanting them outside.
- The startup incubator was a hothouse environment for new businesses.
- Critics dismissed him as a hothouse talent who couldn’t handle real pressure.
- The hothouse atmosphere of the elite prep school produced many successful graduates.
- Tomatoes grown in the hothouse were ready weeks earlier than outdoor crops.