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noun 
  1. A building made of glass 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. (chiefly commercial).
  2. A building where glass or glassware is manufactured.
  3. (British army slang) A military prison.
Etymology: From glass + house.

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