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cold frame
noun
: a usually glass- or plastic-covered frame without artificial heat used to protect plants and seedlings outdoors
Examples of cold frame in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web
Consider starting seedlings indoors or using tools like grow tents or cold frames to move your plants outdoors before the weather heats up.
—Cori Sears, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 June 2024
Protect container plants by moving them into a garage, basement, greenhouse, cold frame or other place where the temperature stays above freezing.
—oregonlive, 23 Feb. 2023
Lynn Ocone, a gardening expert and an author, uses her cold frame every year at her home in chilly Burlington, Vermont.
—Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 27 Mar. 2023
Ray does not have an elaborate cold frame or greenhouse.
—Susan Brownstein, cleveland, 10 Jan. 2023
Don’t open your cold frame if the temperature is below freezing, during a snowstorm, first thing in the morning, or in the evening or beyond, Warnock says.
—Nevin Martell, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2022
Protect leafy greens with a cold frame, row cover, or even a temporary little greenhouse (unheated).
—Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 29 Sep. 2022
Gregg Curtis, owner of Good Earth, said the original Anne Frank sapling was kept in an unheated, cold frame greenhouse under a shade cloth and watered by hand.
—Sean Clancy, Arkansas Online, 24 July 2022
Make a cold frame or hotbed to start early vegetables or flowers.
—oregonlive, 1 Feb. 2022
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Word History
First Known Use
1851, in the meaning defined above
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“Cold frame.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cold%20frame. Accessed 17 Jun. 2024.
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cold frame
noun
: a usually glass- or plastic-covered frame without artificial heat used to protect plants and seedlings
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