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Noun hotbed has 2 senses
  1. hotbed - a situation that is ideal for rapid development (especially of something bad); "it was a hotbed of vice"
    --1 is a kind of     situation, state of affairs
  2. hotbed - a bed of earth covered with glass and heated by rotting manure to promote the growth of plants
    --2 is a kind of     bed
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