hotbed
Noun
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Noun
hotbed (plural hotbeds)
- A low bed of earth covered with glass, and heated with rotting manure, used for the germination of seeds and the growth of tender plants, like a miniature hothouse.
- (by extension) An environment that is ideal for the growth or development of something, especially of something undesirable.
- Synonyms: seedbed
- An iron platform in a rolling mill, on which hot bars, rails, etc., are laid to cool.
- Russian: парни́к
- French: nid
- German: Brutstätte, Nährboden
- Russian: расса́дник
- Spanish: semillero, hervidero, caldo de cultivo
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