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hotbed noun

  • 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, like a miniature hothouse.
 Frühbeet, Mistbeet, Treibbeet
  • (by extension) An environment that is ideal for the growth or development of something, especially of something undesirable.
 Brutstätte, Hort, Nährboden, Tummelplatz
hotbed of crisis
Krisenherd
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