Antonyms for greenhouse
ˈgrinˌhaʊs; -ˌhaʊ zɪzgreen·house

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1. greenhousenoun

   Synonyms:
   glasshouse

2. greenhousenoun

   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.

   Synonyms:
   glasshouse

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1. greenhouse, nursery, glasshouseadjective

   a building with glass walls and roof; for the cultivation and exhibition of plants under controlled conditions

   Synonyms:
   nursery, glasshouse, baby's room

2. greenhouseadjective

   of or relating to or caused by the greenhouse effect

   "greenhouse gases"

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1. greenhousenoun

   Synonyms:
   conservatory

How to use greenhouse in a sentence?

1. Richard Duke:

   It's never been easier to cut greenhouse gas pollution.

2. Steve Vladeck:

   One of the questions the Court has agreed to take up in these cases is whether, in delegating the power to The EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, Congress exceeded those limits, if the Court says yes, that will not just curtail the EPA's power to respond to climate change in a moment in which it's hard to imagine that Congress will fill the gap ; it would have enormous implications for -- and impose far greater limits on -- the federal government's regulatory power writ large.

3. Pope Francis:

   It is true that there are other factors - such as volcanic activity, variations in the earth's orbit and axis, the solar cycle - yet a number of scientific studies indicate that most global warming in recent decades is due to the great concentration of greenhouse gases - carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen oxides and others - released mainly as a result of human activity.

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   Can we build walls and levies and dikes fast enough to keep up with that ? One concern would be that at that point you're sort of looking at managed retreat essentially, rather than geoengineering in a lot of places. at the high end, the worst-case scenarios, with sort of business as usual greenhouse gas emissions... we will literally be remapping coastlines.

5. Van Aalst:

   I hope it's a wake-up call also to people that have not just been affected by this one, but also people elsewhere -- because it's been heatwaves elsewhere, where I could tell a similar story, we are just facing more extreme events of many kinds, and the only thing we can do is, on the one hand, closing the tap off the increase in greenhouse gases to avoid the risk of getting further out of hand, and on the other hand, preparing for that more extreme climate.

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