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nursery
[ nur-suh-ree ]
noun
- a room or place set apart for young children.
- a nursery school or day nursery.
- a place where young trees or other plants are raised for transplanting, for sale, or for experimental study.
- any place in which something is bred, nourished, or fostered:
The art institute has been the nursery of much great painting.
- any situation, condition, circumstance, practice, etc., serving to breed or foster something:
Slums are nurseries for young criminals.
nursery
/ ˈ²Ôɜ˲õ°ùɪ /
noun
- a room in a house set apart for use by children
- ( as modifier )
nursery wallpaper
- a place where plants, young trees, etc, are grown commercially
- an establishment providing residential or day care for babies and very young children; crèche
- short for nursery school
- anywhere serving to foster or nourish new ideas, etc
- Also callednursery cannon billiards
- a series of cannons with the three balls adjacent to a cushion, esp near a corner pocket
- a cannon in such a series
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Charities and childcare nurseries say they are furious that they face increases in their National Insurance bills, but are also powerless to raise their incomes.
For instance, even before construction began in 2022, the project built a nursery and sent horticulturists combing the hills around the site to collect about 1 million seeds from around 30 native plant species.
Seagrasses provide shelters, nurseries, and feeding grounds for thousands of species, including endangered animals such as dugongs, stalked jellyfish and smalltooth sawfish.
It has been predicted the number of children in state nurseries and primary schools would fall by 4.5% over the next four years, but it varies across England.
Mary Lou Heard owned a popular Westminster nursery, Heard’s Country Gardens, that specialized in unusual cottage garden plants.
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