caldo de cultivo

Spanish

Noun

caldo de cultivo m (plural caldos de cultivo)

1. (biology) culture medium; growth medium
2. (figurative) breeding ground; hotbed

Further reading

• “caldo de cultivo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28