| bed | (noun) a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep | - |
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| (noun) a plot of ground in which plants are growing | - |
| (noun) a foundation of earth or rock supporting a road or railroad track | - |
| (noun) the flat surface of a printing press on which the type form is laid in the last stage of producing a newspaper or magazine or book etc. | - |
| (noun) single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance | Synonyms: layer |
| (noun) a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit | Synonyms: seam |
| (noun) a depression forming the ground under a body of water | Synonyms: bottom |
| (noun) (geology) a stratum of rock (especially sedimentary rock) | - |
| childbed | (noun) concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child | Synonyms: confinement, labor, labour, lying-in, parturiency, travail |
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| daybed | (noun) a long chair; for reclining | Synonyms: chaise, chaise longue |
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| (noun) an armless couch; a seat by day and a bed by night | Synonyms: divan bed |
| deathbed | (noun) the bed on which a person dies | - |
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| (noun) the last few hours before death | - |
| featherbed | (noun) a mattress stuffed with feathers | Synonyms: feather bed |
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| flatbed | (noun) an open truck bed or trailer with no sides; used to carry large heavy objects | - |
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| (noun) freight car without permanent sides or roof | Synonyms: flat, flatcar |
| flowerbed | (noun) a bed in which flowers are growing | Synonyms: bed of flowers, flower bed |
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| hotbed | (noun) a bed of earth covered with glass and heated by rotting manure to promote the growth of plants | - |
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| (noun) a situation that is ideal for rapid development (especially of something bad) | - |
| riverbed | (noun) a channel occupied (or formerly occupied) by a river | Synonyms: river bottom |
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| roadbed | (noun) a bed supporting a road | - |
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| seabed | (noun) the bottom of a sea or ocean | Synonyms: Davy Jones's locker, Davy Jones, ocean bottom, ocean floor, sea bottom, sea floor |
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| seedbed | (noun) a bed where seedlings are grown before transplanting | - |
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| sickbed | (noun) the bed on which a sick person lies | - |
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| slugabed | (noun) a person who stays in bed until a relatively late hour | Synonyms: lie-abed |
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| streambed | (noun) a channel occupied (or formerly occupied) by a stream | Synonyms: creek bed |
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