Crossword clues for hotbed
hotbed
- Active place
- Fertile plot
- Environment favoring rapid growth
- Site of rapid growth
- Site of rapid development
- Rapid-growth environment
- Place of productive activity
- Locus of activity
- Forcing house
- Environment conducive to rapid development
- Area of rapid growth
- Area of rapid development
- A place for plants or plots
- Nursery
- Cousin of a terrarium
- Greenhouse area
- Rapid growth area
- Thermostat site, maybe
- Breeding ground
- Place of rapid growth
- A situation that is ideal for rapid development (especially of something bad)
- A bed of earth covered with glass and heated by rotting manure to promote the growth of plants
- Sexy bottom? It might encourage rapid but unwelcome developments
- It encourages rapid development in established case pursuing stolen barrels
- Center of activity
- Where the action is
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hotbed \Hot"bed`\, n.
(Gardening) A bed of earth heated by fermenting manure or other substances, and covered with glass, intended for raising early plants, or for nourishing exotics.
A place which favors rapid growth or development; as, a hotbed of sedition.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 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. A hotbed works as a miniature hothouse, i.e. greenhouse. 2 (context by extension English) 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.
WordNet
n. a situation that is ideal for rapid development (especially of something bad); "it was a hotbed of vice"
a bed of earth covered with glass and heated by rotting manure to promote the growth of plants
Wikipedia
In biology, a hotbed is a pile of decaying organic matter warmer than its surroundings due to the heat given off by the metabolism of the microorganisms in the decomposing pile.
A hotbed covered with a small glass cover (also called a hotbox) is used as a small version of a hothouse (heated greenhouse). The bed is often made of manure from animals such as horses that pass much undigested plant cellulose in their droppings. Thus hotboxes are to cold frames what hothouses are to greenhouses.
Some egg-laying animals make or use hotbeds to incubate their eggs: for example the brush turkey.
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Usage examples of "hotbed".
Council on Foreign Relations, long regarded by the Birchers as an Illuminati hotbed.
Society as a perpetual hotbed of regicidal conspiracy, and presents us to credulous people as an association of ambitious, thankless and corrupt assassins!
Those picturesque villages are generally the perennial hotbeds of fever and ague, of squalid penury, sottish profligacy, dull discontent too stale for words.
Mrs Winkworth that Bath was a hotbed of scandal, warning her, with his ready laugh, that it was enough for an unattached gentleman to offer his arm to a single lady for the length of a street to set all the quizzies tattling that he was dangling after her.
Since last October and the attack on Versailles when the king and his family had been forced by the people to take up residence in the old Parisian palace of the Tuileries and the National Assembly had followed, Parisian life had become a hotbed of excitable politicking and rough justice.
Into the turbulent hotbed of Asuncion fell Antequera, one of those Creoles of Peru who, born with talent and well educated, seemed, either from the circumstances of their birth or the surroundings amongst which they passed their youth, to differ as entirely from the Spaniards as if they had been Indians and not Creoles of white blood.
Trial records and documents from the Philippine National Police show that Nichols was in Cebu City at the same time as Yousef in December 1994 - staying in a section of the Visayas island group that was a hotbed of Islamic fundamentalism.
Result, the boarding-house of the later half of the century, nominally a family home, actually a hotbed of faultfinding and gossip, most wearing to the teacher and fledgling professional woman, however acceptable to the milliner and seamstress.
They are sealing it off so that students from this notorious hotbed of leftism will not join the march, that is all.
The only company considered a fighting force was a National Rifles company of Marylanders, but that was a hotbed of disloyalty.
Although her father wished her to marry, Miao Shan decided to visit a monastery, which, contrary to her expectations, was a hotbed of vice.
They were also famous for their solidly Petrine allegiance in religious matters and for being a hotbed of Metropolitanism.
And I, who in wanton Paris had passed as an innocent child through a hotbed of sensuality and a hailstorm of seduction, on a single twilight eve in London had four or five encounters the particulars of which remained in my memory as barbed arrows remain imbedded in the flesh, smarting and itching and burning like the thorny fibres of cactus or sweetbriar seed with which one has come into too close contact.
The small industrial town of Zwickau had long been a hotbed of Waldensian heresy.
In an establishment, I might add, which I chose for our lodgings due to its very notoriety as a hotbed of carousal and debauchery.