English Dictionary

greenhouse

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈɡɹiːnˌhaʊs/

名詞

イギリス英語 古風 俗語

A building used to grow plants, particularly one with large glass windows or plastic sheeting to trap heat from sunlight even in intemperate seasons or climates.

日本語の意味

植物を育成するために使用される建物。特にガラス窓やプラスチックシートで覆われ、太陽光の熱を閉じ込めることにより寒冷な季節や気候でも利用できる温室のこと。 / 植物栽培用の施設で、温室効果を利用して内部の温度を保ち、植物の成育環境を整える建物。

She spent the morning watering the orchids in the greenhouse to ensure they bloomed for the spring fair.

彼女は春の展示会で蘭が咲くように、午前中を温室で水やりに費やした。

意味（1）

A building used to grow plants, particularly one with large glass windows or plastic sheeting to trap heat from sunlight even in intemperate seasons or climates.

The royal party had dined in the greenhouse, the coup d'œil of which was as striking as it was new. Vast stands of the most costly exotics reached to the glass roof, which was partly covered by a luxuriant vine, or by a small scarlet creeper.

意味（2）

(UK military slang, dated) The glass of a plane's cockpit.

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’.

意味（3）

(medicine) A structure that shields the operating table to protect against bacteria.

Figure 2.6 shows the diagram Charnley published of the airflow in the 'greenhouse'; it can be seen that reasonable downward unidirectional airflow was achieved close to the operating table.

意味（4）

(climatology) A hot state in global climate.

greenhouses （ plural ）