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conservatory
A conservatory is a room with glass walls and a glass roof, which is attached to a house. People often grow plants in a conservatory. -
endocentric
Denoting or being a construction in which the whole has the same syntactic function as the head, for example big black dogs. -
global warming
an increase in the earth's average atmospheric temperature that causes corresponding changes in climate and that may result from the greenhouse effect. -
greenhouse effect
an atmospheric heating phenomenon, caused by short-wave solar radiation being readily transmitted inward through the earth's atmosphere but longer-wavelength heat radiation less readily transmitted outward, owing to its absorption by atmospheric carbon dioxide, water vapor, methane, and other gases; thus, the rising level of carbon dioxide is viewed with concern. -
greenhouse whitefly
See under whitefly. -
hothouse
an artificially heated greenhouse for the cultivation of tender plants.