In agriculture, greenhouse means: A building with a glass or plastic cover in which plants are grown under controlled temperature, humidity and light, often out of season.
In Turkish: sera
How it is used
Common in vegetable and flower production, with phrases such as glass greenhouse, plastic greenhouse, greenhouse tomatoes and greenhouse growers. Growers heat, ventilate and shade greenhouses and control the climate inside them.
Example sentences
Most greenhouse tomatoes in Antalya are exported to Europe and Russia.
Heating the greenhouse in January costs more than the fertilizer.
Common collocations
glass greenhouse
plastic greenhouse
greenhouse grower
heated greenhouse
greenhouse climate
Related terms
polytunnelA low-cost growing structure made of curved metal hoops covered with polyethylene film, used to protect crops and extend the season.
seedlingA young plant grown from seed, especially one raised in a tray or nursery before being planted out in the field or greenhouse.
hydroponicsA method of growing plants without soil, with the roots in a nutrient solution or in an inert material such as rockwool, perlite or coco coir.
growing mediumThe material in which plants grow instead of or in addition to soil, such as peat, perlite, coco peat or rockwool, used in pots, trays and greenhouse beds.
transplantTo move a young plant from the tray or nursery where it was raised and plant it in the field or greenhouse where it will grow to maturity.
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