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bed

noun (BOTTOM)
 
 
/bed/

Definition

C2 [C] the bottom of something or something that serves as a base: Many strange plants and fish live on the sea bed. The railway was built on a bed of solid rock.Surfaces of objectsEdges and extremities of objects a bed of sth a pile of one type of food on which other food is arranged as a meal: roasted vegetables on a bed of riceFood - general words
(Definition of bed noun (BOTTOM) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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