bed
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- noun
- /bɛd/
:
cama de flores
- Around the house, we placed several raised beds filled with herbs and tomatoes.
- flower bed
- garden bed
- raised bed
There is the whole raised bed build and guess what?
- There is the whole raised bed build and guess what?
- A deer with black diamonds in in its eyes lay in a bed of black pansies.
- Down here we have the strawberry bed for the season.
Examples
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The oysters usually remain on the beds for 3-6 months and then are harvested for sale.
Academic text (1996) -
So every single raised bed has produce in it growing.
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There is the whole raised bed build and guess what?
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So looking over here, this is our kind of pepper bed, or one of them.
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Like just last week this was a whole bed of gorgeous purple flowers.
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So right here, I've got the only raised bed in this backyard.
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We've got beans in this bed, onions in that bed.
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Her lawn was beginning to gain color, one flower bed already a carpet of purple blossoms.
Fiction book (1993) -
We stood on the curb beside a flower bed, staring like awestruck rubes at the clinic building.
Fiction book (1992) -
Its diamond-shaped collection of lawns, paths, fountains, and flower beds filled one quadrant of the octagonal citadel.
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
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A part of a garden where people plant flowers
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A small piece of land where you grow vegetables to eat
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3.0
A small piece of ground for growing plants or building on
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1.4
An area in a garden with trees, bushes, or flowers
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A piece of ground in a garden for growing flowers
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A small area in a garden where people grow vegetables
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An area of ground in a garden where people plant and grow flowers
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5.1
Prepared soil where gardeners grow young plants before moving them to a garden
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2.7
A small area where people grow vegetables for their own use
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2.3
A small piece of land used for growing plants
A patch of ground planted with rose bushes
A part of a garden where rose bushes grow
A small area in a garden where tulips grow together
A long narrow area of soil used to grow asparagus plants
An area of ground where you grow turnips
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
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A bed used in hospitals that can be raised or lowered to help care for patients
- Specialized
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4.4
A place with tools for checking how machines or programs work under real conditions
- Archaic
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5.1
Short, lightweight clothing that you wear over pajamas when sitting in bed for warmth
- Slur
An insulting name for a woman thought to be sexually available, also used in the past for a household servant
- Specialized
A network of tiny blood vessels in tissue where blood gives oxygen and nutrients to cells and removes waste
- Specialized
The part of the lung with many tiny air sacs where gases pass into the blood
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The part of the jawbone that holds the tooth sockets and supports teeth
- Specialized
A layer of sand or gravel in a sewage plant where tiny living things break down waste
- Specialized
A machine that burns fuel in a hot layer of small particles to make steam more efficiently and cleanly
How Cultivated
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bed for plants comes from the same old idea of a 'place where something lies'; think of a flowerbed as the place where flowers lie. That's why a bed of plants means the prepared ground for them.