bed of flowers
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1.0
- noun
:
parterre de flores
- I leaned on Sonny's fence, noticing for the first time the large beds of flowers mixed with weeds in his backyard, and some bare patches that might have been meant for vegetables.
Examples
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Summer caught her breath as Steve bent to lay her down in a bed of flowers and dark green leaves.
Fiction book (1995) -
I am a bed of flowers admired daily by thousands of tourists, now buried under five stories of rubble.
Fiction book (2001) -
At some point, the area around the house had been landscaped, the bushes shaped, and beds of flowers planted, but it looked as though it hadn't been tended in quite a while.
Fiction book (2002) -
She crossed to the sleeping room's barred window and stood there a while, staring out at the walled garden with its fountain, grass, a tall narrow naqon tree, and two round beds of flowers.
Fiction book (1997) -
It led between orderly beds of flowers, through topiary arches, and past small fountains where tritons sported with water nymphs.
Fiction book (1993) -
The garden features vibrant beds of flowers that bloom throughout the spring.
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As I strolled through the park, I admired the neatly arranged beds of flowers under the bright sun.
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In her backyard, she created lovely beds of flowers filled with tulips and daisies.
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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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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Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from combining 'bed' (a garden plot) with 'flowers' via the prepositional link 'of', yielding 'a plot where flowers are planted and grown.' This is a straightforward noun + of + noun composition that is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Bed of flowers comes from the picture of a neat patch in a garden: a bed is a flat area where flowers are planted, so the phrase means 'an area where flowers are planted'.