flower bed
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- noun
- /ˈflaʊər bɛd/
:
arriate
- The flower bed in the park was filled with blooming roses and daffodils.
- lawns and flower beds
OK, let's look at this flower bed right here and then cruise this way.
- OK, let's look at this flower bed right here and then cruise this way.
Examples
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The deer tore up your flower bed.
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Some compost has been applied at public ballfields and flower beds of new parks.
Academic text (1999) -
So this whole entire flower bed is done, which is so great.
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Yes, come up and see my flower bed.
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That will be a zone for containers and flower beds around the shed.
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Her lawn was beginning to gain color, one flower bed already a carpet of purple blossoms.
Fiction book (1993) -
Behind it was a sloping lawn, flower beds just starting to lose their summer brilliance.
Fiction book (1999) -
From the lawn and from the flower beds came the shushing sound of the sprinklers.
Fiction book (1990) -
We stood on the curb beside a flower bed, staring like awestruck rubes at the clinic building.
Fiction book (1992) -
Three candles illuminate a little shrine, nestled in a flower bed in a remote corner of the Ilam garden.
Fiction book (1994)
Synonyms
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A piece of ground in a garden for growing flowers
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An area of ground in a garden where people plant and grow flowers
How Big
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an area of ground where flowers are planted' is directly and transparently composed from 'flower' (a plant part) + 'bed' (a plot of ground for planting); it is a straightforward noun–noun compound. This is a common, cross-linguistic composition pattern and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
The name flower bed comes from gardeners who compared a neat patch of soil to a bed where flowers grow. So it now means 'an area of ground where flowers are planted and grown'.