bedding plant
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- noun
- /ˈbɛdɪŋ plænt/
- Specialized
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planta de maceta
- The garden center had a wide selection of bedding plants that would thrive in sunny flowerbeds.
- flowers and bedding plants
- annual bedding plants
Examples
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In spring, many people buy bedding plants to create colorful flower displays in their gardens.
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Outdoors, it makes a great bedding plant that will bloom for up to 2 months.
Academic text (1994) -
Sister Martha Mary is setting out some more bedding plants around the shrine to Our Lady.
Fiction book (1994) -
At the farm stand, instead of turning left for home, Becky parked in front of a display of fall bedding plants.
Fiction book (2000) -
Yeah, Ernest did do a few little things, like going to get my cow manure from the country and picking up a few little bedding plants and supplies at the garden center.
Fiction book (1993) -
Examples include the impatiens that have become the No. 1 bedding plant and longer-lasting poinsettias, the leading flowering potted Christmas plant.
Academic text (1994) -
This is good for larger bulbs, not huge bulbs, not like colossal sized bulbs, but medium to bigger size bulbs and then bedding plants, things like that.
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It sprang up like a living flame when I saw the first Mercedes station wagon leaving the nursery, laden with mature bedding plants that would have cost a family in Dayclear a month's food money.
Fiction book (1998) -
She carefully arranged the bedding plants in her flowerbed to enhance the beauty of her yard.
Synonyms
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A plant that people grow to make a flower bed look attractive
How Decorative
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an ornamental plant grown for planting in flowerbeds' is directly derivable from combining 'bed' (here understood as planting into a prepared soil bed, giving 'bedding') with 'plant' — i.e. a plant intended for beds. This is a straightforward compositional, descriptive formation found cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents can infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Bedding plant comes from gardeners putting young plants into a bedding or 'flower bed' to make a quick, colorful display. That's why the term means a plant grown just to be planted in beds for a 'seasonal display'.