Definitions for seedbed

seedbed seed·bed

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IPA: /ˈsidˌbɛd/

Seedbed is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 54 anagrams from letters in seedbed (bddeees).

Definitions for seedbed

noun

  1. land prepared for seeding.
  2. a plot of ground for seedlings.
  3. a place of development; source.

Origin of seedbed

First recorded in 1650-60; seed + bed

Examples for seedbed

The seedbed must be as level as a floor, and compact, for good use to be made of the wheel-seeder.

It was good weather for preparing the seedbed, and the men had been busy since sunrise, making the most of it.

I was so impressed with its beauty that I took it from where it bloomed in the seedbed and planted it at my house in the garden.

To protect the young plants, the seedbed was usually covered with oak leaves, though straw was used occasionally.

The usual practice is to keep the seedlings one year in the seedbed and two years in the nursery rows before they are set out.

But if, from any cause, they have made a feeble growth, it is better to let them remain in the seedbed another year.

Hereafter the seedbed should be well watered from time to time whenever the soil appears dry.

Word Value for seedbed
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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