flowerbed
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- noun
- /ˈflaʊərˌbɛd/
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parterre
- The lawns all over town were immaculate, with flowerbeds full of pansies and geraniums.
- garden with flowerbeds
- flowerbed outside my window
- flowers in the flowerbeds
Examples
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Mike Martin was watering the flowerbeds at five-thirty when the house began to stir.
Fiction book (1994) -
The main benefit was that anyone who went for something as decorative as a flowerbed had money to spend on it.
Fiction book (2000) -
Or we can stay home and sit by the flowerbed in the backyard.
Fiction book (1992) -
Tanu worked in the flowerbed under his window.
Fiction book (2000) -
As I walk along my flowerbed, stopping occasionally to pull a weed or two, I sense I am being watched.
Academic text (1998) -
One day, a gust of wind dropped spores on a stretch of flowerbed alongside a city street, and fungi sprouted.
Blog text (12) -
Mr. Waterhouse was collecting tulip petals that the June breeze had blown over from the flowerbed and putting them in his jacket pocket.
Fiction book (2002) -
A young red-headed woman, wearing shorts and an open-necked shirt, kneels on the grass, weeding a lush flowerbed.
Fiction book (1995) -
Since her departure, Murphy has managed to neglect or mow over most of the once burgeoning flowerbeds, leaving only a few yellow daylilies and anemic gladiolas.
Fiction book (1999) -
The children planted colorful flowers in the flowerbed behind the house.
Synonyms
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A plot of ground where flowers or other plants grow
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A part of a garden where people plant flowers
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An area of ground in a garden where people plant and grow flowers
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Etymology
Flowerbed is simply flower + bed, where bed means 'a prepared place in the ground' used for plants, much like a bed holds a person. So a flowerbed is a part of a garden made especially for growing flowers.