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ˈseed-bed
1. A bed for sowing seeds; also, the seedlings growing there.
1660Sharrock Vegetables 25 In seeds that are long in coming up, the seed bed is not to be digged up the first winter. 1723P. Blair Pharmaco-Bot. i. 38 Like a Fir-tree, when in the Seed Bed, but much less. 1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. 265 They should never be allowed to remain more than two years in the seed-bed, for in that case they will be completely spoiled. 1852C. W. H[oskins] Talpa 178 He will cut up the soil into a seed-bed of the pattern required.
b. transf. and fig.
1826E. Irving Babylon II. viii. 312 The Church hath been set into action to prepare the seed-bed of the truth over the earth. 1884Pall Mall Gaz. 9 July 2/1 There must have been seed-beds of disease to have produced leprosy in houses and in people.
†2. Bot. = placenta 2. Obs. rare—1.
1720P. Blair Bot. Ess. ii. 54 As the Seeds ripen, and separate from the proper Placentæ or Seed-beds. |