"flower-bed" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: flower-beds [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} flower-bed (plural flower-beds)
  1. Alternative form of flowerbed. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: flowerbed
    Sense id: en-flower-bed-en-noun-q8VZf5NL Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1880, Percy Greg, Across the Zodiac",
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          "ref": "1911, Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes",
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          "ref": "1952, Norman Lewis, Golden Earth",
          "text": "We stopped for a moment at the golf course to chat with members of the Consular staff, and then drove on to the Consulate, which was set upon an eminence, above evidences of landscape-gardening; a sweep of lawns, with coarse, whitened grass; flower-beds in which larkspur and nasturtiums fought against desperate odds.",
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