A bed of soil enclosed in a glass frame, which is heated (typically by fermenting manure) and used for raising or forcing plants.
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| 释义 | the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > division or part of garden > [noun] > bed or plot > hotbed (5) hotbed1626 A bed of soil enclosed in a glass frame, which is heated (typically by fermenting manure) and used for raising or forcing plants. bark-bed1732 a hot-bed made of spent bark from a tannery. heat1796 spec. High temperature produced by fermentation or putrefaction, as in a hotbed; hence applied concretely to a hotbed, esp. in in heat. ridge1798 Chiefly Agriculture. Horticulture. A raised bed or hotbed on which cucumbers or melons are grown. Cf. ridge cucumber n. at compounds 2. Now chiefly… Subcategories:— heat of (1) |
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