Definition of "seed-plot" []

• A piece of ground in which seeds are sown to produce plants for transplanting; a piece of nursery-ground; hence, figuratively, a nursery or hotbed. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "-- We speak against the fearful moral carnage; would to God that some unmistakable manifestation of the wrath of God should come in and put a stop to this huge seed-plot of national demoralization!"
• ""The earth may be looked at as a vast seed-plot of life, seen from the point of view of the Great Sower.""
• "As we shall see, it became the very seed-plot of graver troubles."