hotbed
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7.6
- noun
- /ˈhɑːtˌbɛd/
:
cama caliente
- "A vicar to tend to the spiritual wants of this hotbed of ancient agricultural festivity?
Examples
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Remember, too, that he grew up in Texas and now lives in upstate NY, neither area a hotbed of lefty analysis.
Blog text (8) -
Tiny baby lizards live in the chink between two boards on the hotbed; shiny little eyes peer out from the dark.
Fiction book (1998) -
This is a real college basketball hotbed, and college football captures the imagination when the teams show signs of life.
Blog text (5) -
In practice, not even the private relations of the Athenians were the hotbed of good feeling praised by Pericles.
Academic text (1991) -
Also, not putting a candidate on the ballot who has the reputation of a corporate raider and comes from a liberal hotbed in Mass. would have helped.
Blog text (8) -
It was only a matter of time before the big guns of the Russian hockey media showed up in Krasnoyarsk, far from a hockey hotbed, to get the full story on why Semin came home.
Blog text (11) -
Kojima had always been a hotbed for textile production; thus, it only made sense to produce the first pair of jeans in Kojima at Kurabo Mills, one of the world's longest operating mills, now running for over 110 years.
Blog text (3) -
In the spring, we use a hotbed to grow tomatoes earlier than usual.
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The gardener created a hotbed to help the seedlings develop faster in the cold weather.
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To start our vegetable garden, we prepared a hotbed filled with fresh manure and covered it with glass.
Synonyms
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4.8
A heated greenhouse for growing tropical and delicate plants
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5.1
Prepared soil where gardeners grow young plants before moving them to a garden
A very warm, wet place made to help plants grow
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Hotbed originally named a warm bed of earth covered with glass and heated by rotting manure to help young plants start and grow early. So, a hotbed literally means a place that makes plants grow faster.