seedbed in English
noun
1
a bed of fine soil in which seedlings are germinated.
This suggests that if newly germinated seedlings in seedbeds were exposed to low water potentials which were later relieved by rain or irrigation, then emergence could be delayed without necessarily increasing seedling losses.
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1. 8 We began to rake over the seedbed while they were selecting the seeds.
2. The House Bedder Chopper prepares a firm seedbed and uniform furrows while forming proper irrigation trenches all in one pass
3. 10 But the case made out by the Research Department's doyen, Alistair Cooke, is that it was the seedbed of Tory social concern.
4. And for almost a century, even as power transferred from Chiang’s Nationalists to Mao Zedong’s Communists, fear of “enemy” infiltration—the seedbed for fascism—lingered in China’s