turnip bed
- noun
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parcela de nabos
- We planted seeds in the turnip bed last spring, and now the vegetables are ready to harvest.
Examples
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After weeding the turnip bed, she carefully watered the young plants.
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A fence was built around the turnip bed to keep rabbits away.
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The turnip bed is ready for planting.
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We prepared a new turnip bed this spring.
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We planted seeds in the turnip bed last spring, and now the vegetables are ready to harvest.
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A fence was built around the turnip bed to keep rabbits away.
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After weeding the turnip bed, she carefully watered the young plants.
Synonyms
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1.0
A plot of ground where flowers or other plants grow
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2.0
A small area in a garden where people grow vegetables
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Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from 'turnip' (a root vegetable) + 'bed' (a plot of ground for planting), so it denotes a garden plot for growing turnips. This straightforward noun-noun compounding is common in English and cross-linguistically familiar, so a B1 learner who knows both words will understand it.
Etymology
The compound noun turnip bed comes from gardening. A turnip is a common root vegetable and a bed is a small area of soil prepared for plants, so a turnip bed is simply 'an area of soil prepared and planted for growing turnips'.