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HOTBED

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A bed of earth covered with glass and heated by rotting manure to promote the growth of plantsplay

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("hotbed" is a kind of...):

bed (a plot of ground in which plants are growing)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A situation that is ideal for rapid development (especially of something bad)play

Example:

it was a hotbed of vice

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("hotbed" is a kind of...):

situation; state of affairs (the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time)

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