English
Etymology
From seed + bed.
Pronunciation
Noun
seedbed (plural seedbeds)
- Ground prepared for the planting of seeds.
- (figuratively) A place conducive to development and attainment.
- Synonym: hotbed
Paris was a seedbed of artistic creation in the 1920s.
Translations
ground prepared for planting of seeds
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 苗床 (zh) (miáochuáng), 苗圃 (zh) (miáopǔ)
- Finnish: kylvöpenkki
- Galician: morteiro (gl) m, pebideiro m, alcouve (gl) m, porral m, sementeiro (gl) m
- German: Saatbett n, Saatbeet n
- Hindi: बीअड़ f (bīaṛ)
- Ingrian: lava
- Irish: ceapach síl f
- Japanese: 苗床 (ja) (なえどこ, naedoko), 苗圃 (ja) (びょうほ, byōho)
- Korean: 묘상 (ko) (myosang), 묘포 (ko) (myopo)
- Maori: pārekereke, tāpapa
- Ottoman Turkish: یاصدق (yasdık)
- Polish: rozsadnik (pl) m, szkółka (pl) f
- Russian: расса́дник (ru) m (rassádnik), гря́дка (ru) f (grjádka)
- Spanish: semillero (es) m, almácigo (es) m, almáciga (es) f
- Swahili: kitalu
- Tamil: நாற்றங்கால் (ta) (nāṟṟaṅkāl), நாற்றுப்பாத்தி (ta) (nāṟṟuppātti), நாற்றங்கொல்லை (ta) (nāṟṟaṅkollai)
- Tibetan: སོན་ཞིང (son zhing)
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figuratively: place conducive to development and attainment