hotbed

See also: hot bed

English

Etymology

hot +‎ bed

Noun

hotbed (plural hotbeds)

1. 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.
   • 1924, Erval Jackson Newcomer, ‎M. A. Yothers, ‎Warren Draper Whitcomb, Control of the Codling Moth in the Pacific Northwest, page 11:

     Tomato seedlings will be ready to transplant from the hotbed to the coldframe in 12 to 18 days after sowing the seed, depending upon the amount of sunshine and the care given the bed.

2. (by extension) An environment that is ideal for the growth or development of something, especially of something undesirable.
3. An iron platform in a rolling mill, on which hot bars, rails, etc., are laid to cool.

Translations

low bed of earth covered with glass

• Bulgarian: разсадник (bg) m (razsadnik)
• Danish: varmebed, drivbænk
• Finnish: kasvilava (fi)
• Hungarian: melegágy (hu)
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• Russian: парни́к (ru) m (parník)
• Serbo-Croatian: nispet m, topla gredica f
• Swedish: drivbänk c

place ideal for the growth of something undesirable

• Bulgarian: огнище (bg) n (ognište)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 溫床／温床 (zh) (wēnchuáng), 温床 (zh) (wēnchuáng)

• Czech: semeniště n
• Dutch: broeinest (nl) n
• French: nid (fr) m
• German: Brutstätte (de) f, Nährboden (de) m
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• Hungarian: melegágy (hu)
• Japanese: 温床 (おんしょう, onshō)
• Korean: 온상 (onsang)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: arnested n

• Russian: расса́дник (ru) m (rassádnik)
• Serbo-Croatian: leglo (sh)
• Spanish: semillero, hervidero, caldo de cultivo

platform in rolling mill

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See also

• breeding-ground
• nidus