nurseries\'

[nur-suh-ree]

nurs·er·y

[nur-suh-ree]
noun, plural nurs·er·ies.
1.
a room or place set apart for young children.
3.
a place where young trees or other plants are raised for transplanting, for sale, or for experimental study.
4.
any place in which something is bred, nourished, or fostered: The art institute has been the nursery of much great painting.
5.
any situation, condition, circumstance, practice, etc., serving to breed or foster something: Slums are nurseries for young criminals.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English norcery. See nurse, -ery

pre·nurs·er·y, adjective, noun, plural pre·nurs·er·ies.
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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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