cloth house

cloth house
noun
: a flat-topped shelter of loosely woven cloth used to protect growing plants (as tobacco) from insects, fungus pests, heavy rain, and wind and to reduce light intensity and evaporation and hence induce greater stem length and larger blooms or a thinner or higher quality of leaf

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cloth house,
an enclosure of cloth for the cultivation and protection of plants.

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