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doubthouse

doubthouse noun: an uncertain state of the global climate, neither greenhouse nor icehouse, ascribed by some paleoclimatologists to the late Eocene.

Noun

doubthouse (uncountable)

  1. An uncertain state of the global climate, neither greenhouse nor icehouse, ascribed by some paleoclimatologists to the late Eocene.

Origin of doubthouse

Compound of doubt + house. Coined by American geoscientist Kenneth G. Miller in 1992.

Questions about doubthouse

What does doubthouse mean?
Doubthouse means an uncertain state of the global climate, neither greenhouse nor icehouse, ascribed by some paleoclimatologists to the late Eocene.
What part of speech is doubthouse?
Doubthouse is a noun.

Words near doubthouse in the dictionary

  1. doubtfuller
  2. doubtfully
  3. doubtfulness
  4. doubtfulnesses
  5. doubtfuls
  6. doubthouse
  7. doubting
  8. doubting Thomas
  9. doubting Thomases
  10. doubting Thomasina
  11. doubting Thomasinas

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