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seedbedsnounpl. of seedbed a place or environment that favors the development of somethinga social and political environment that would later become a seedbed of the abolition movement breeding grounds, hotbeds, hothouses, nests, nidi(or niduses), nurseries, seminaries cruciblesbases, capitals, centers, cores, cynosures, eyes, foci(also focuses), hearts, hubs, meccas, nuclei(also nucleuses), seatsfoci(also focuses), headquarters the source from which something grows or developsthat think tank has served as a seedbed for American conservatism since the Cold War era fountainheads, germs, origins, roots, seed(or seeds) fonts, fountains, springs, wellheads, wells, wellspringsbeginnings, births, commencements, dawns, geneses, inceptions, incipiencies, launches, mornings, onsets, outsets, starts, thresholdscreations, inaugurations, originations a point or place at which something is invented or providedthe historic role of the Middle East as a seedbed for new religions cradles, fonts, fountainheads, fountains, origins, roots, sources, springs, wells, wellsprings beginnings, commencements, dawns, day ones, geneses, get-goes(also git-goes), inceptions, incipiences, incipiencies, kickoffs, launches, mornings, nascences, nascencies, onsets, outsets, starts, thresholdsbaselines, first bases, ground zeros, square ones |