1. A greenhouse in which plants are arranged in a pleasing manner
   "The restaurant featured a hothouse with exotic tropical plants";
   - conservatory
    
2. Somewhere that provides an environment for rapid development
   "the continent has become a hothouse for the emergence of extremist groups"; "a hothouse for innovative ideas"

1. Provide (a child) with high-level teaching at an early age
   "I was hothoused as a child and reading very well by the age of 3"

Derived forms: hothousing, hothouses, hothoused

Type of: glasshouse [Brit], greenhouse

Encyclopedia: Hothouse, North Carolina