Difference between Greenhouse and Glasshouse
What is the difference between Greenhouse and Glasshouse?
Greenhouse as a noun is a building traditionally made of glass, but now also made from plastics such as polyethylene, 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 or plastic. while Glasshouse as a noun is 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).
Greenhouse
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A building traditionally made of glass, but now also made from plastics such as polyethylene, 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 or plastic.
Glasshouse
Part of speech: noun
Definition: 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).A building where glass or glassware is manufactured.(British army slang) A military prison.
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