Seedbed

Definition: Seedbed

Seedbed

Noun

1. A bed where seedlings are grown before transplanting.

Crosswords: Seedbed

English words defined with "seedbed": lift. (references)

Specialty definitions using "seedbed": No Till ♦ soil cultivation, soil working ♦ tillage operations. (references)

A seedbed is a specially prepared area of the garden that has been made suitable for the sowing and germination of plant seeds. A seedbed has usually been well broken down into a fine tilth using a tool such as a rake, and will have had any stones or weeds removed. The site will have been levelled for even drainage.

See also: Stale seed bed, seed drill, stratification (botany).

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	Agriculture. Guayule cultivation. Newly-seeded guayule nursery beds. Guayule seeds are very fine and delicate and cannot be planted as other seeds. A specially constructed machine drops the seeds on a very carefully prepared seedbed and then covers the se.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Seedbed" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Seedbed" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	15	90,616

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "seedbed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		serrë (garden-house, glass house, greenhouse, hothouse), farishtë. (various references)

Czech		pařeništì (hotbed), líheò (hatchery, hotbed). (various references)

Hebrew		מ� בט�". (various references)

Indonesian		persemaian (nursery), pembenihan (germination). (various references)

Italian		semenzaio (nursery, seed nursery). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		苗床 (nursery, seed-plot), 苗圃 (nursery). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		なえど�" (nursery, seed-plot), びょうほ (nursery). (various references)

Pig Latin		eedbedsay

Russian		грядка с рассадой (seed-bed), парник (forcing bed, frame, greenhouse, hotbed). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nađubrena leja. (various references)

Spanish		semillero (bed, hotbed, nursery, nursery bed), foco (coat, coating, floodlight, focal point, focal spot, focus, headquarters, hot spot, outbreak, pocket, seat, spotlight). (various references)

Swedish		drivbänk (flat, frame, hotbed, hot-bed, plant tray, seedling tray, tray). (various references)

Thai		แปลงหว่านเมล็�". (various references)

Turkish		yuva (burrow, creche, creep, day care center, fireside, fold, haunt, hearth, hearth and home, hearthstone, Holt, home, hotbed, mortice, mortise, nest, nidus, nursery, race, recess, seat, seed plot, set), ocak (cooker, fire, fireplace, furnace, grate, hearth, Jan, January, oven, range, seed plot, stove), fidelik (nursery bed, seed plot). (various references)

Ukranian		грунт для посіву, парник (hotbed). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "seedbed": seedbeds. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Seedbed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Saadabad, Sedber, seedbox. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-d-d-e-e-e-s"
	-1 letter: seeded.
	-2 letters: deeds.
	-3 letters: beds, bees, debs, deed, dees, seed.
	-4 letters: bed, bee, deb, dee, eds, see.
	-5 letters: be, de, ed, es.
	Words containing the letters "b-d-d-e-e-e-s"
	+1 letter: seedbeds.
	+2 letters: besteaded.
	+4 letters: beardedness, descendible, disbelieved, dismembered, redescribed, speedballed.
	+5 letters: debridements, disemboweled, disobedience, indebtedness.
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