Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A piece of ground prepared for receiving seed: often used figuratively.
- noun In forestry, a specially prepared area, usually in the forest nursery, for the raising of seedlings.
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Examples
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In the distance, on the low, easy-sloping hills, he saw team after team, and many teams, three to a team abreast, what he knew were his Shire mares, drawing the plows back and forth across, contour-plowing, turning the green sod of the hillsides to the rich dark brown of humus-filled earth so organic and friable that it would almost melt by gravity into fine-particled seed-bed.
CHAPTER II 2010
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The governor deplored the split with “our oldest, strongest allies,” and now, “worst of all, the fate of mankind hangs in the balance in this seed-bed of human civilization.”
Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011
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The governor deplored the split with “our oldest, strongest allies,” and now, “worst of all, the fate of mankind hangs in the balance in this seed-bed of human civilization.”
Eisenhower 1956 David A. Nichols 2011
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This socially corrosive theory has played its part in providing the fertile seed-bed for Islamic extremism to take root in the UK and the West.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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The poem first appeared in Eppel's 1995 collection, Sonata for Matabeleland, a book whose very title signals cross-cultural transaction – a fertile but uneasy seed-bed.
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The stubbles have been ripped up by cultivation, some already ploughed and soon to be worked up to a seed-bed prior to drilling with winter cereals.
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No doubt there are ways the family can be improved, and ways in which family members can be more adequately protected from abuse, but the family itself is the seed-bed and crucible of civil society, and the best safeguard of human dignity.
Lessons from the Middle Ages elena maria vidal 2009
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No doubt there are ways the family can be improved, and ways in which family members can be more adequately protected from abuse, but the family itself is the seed-bed and crucible of civil society, and the best safeguard of human dignity.
Archive 2009-03-01 elena maria vidal 2009
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Often enough, these small-time players serve as a seed-bed ... they test the waters, so-to-speak, and lay the groundwork for the big guns that are sure to come blazing in later.
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The chief function of the movement, Heseltine optimistically added, was to serve as “a seed-bed” for the future leaders of civilization.
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