Nursery
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Nursery may refer to:
Childcare
[edit]- Nursery (room), a room within the house designed for the care of a young child or children.
- Nursery school, a daycare facility for preschool-age children
- Prison nursery, for imprisoned mothers with their young children
Places
[edit]- Nursery, Texas, unincorporated community in Victoria County, Texas, United States
- Nursery, Karachi, a suburb of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
- Nursery Site, RI-273, historic site in Westerly, Rhode Island, United States
- Nursery, British Columbia, a populated community in British Columbia
Music
[edit]- Nursery Suite (1931), by Edward Elgar
- The Nursery (song cycle) (1870), by Modest Mussorgsky
Art
[edit]- The Nursery (1660s), painting by Gerard Dou, lost with the sinking of the Vrouw Maria in 1771
- The Nursery (Christmas Stockings) (1936), painting by Stanley Spencer (76.5x91.8cm)
Plants and gardens
[edit]- Garden centre, independent, or lawn and garden departments of hardware and home improvement stores, often called "nurseries" in the U.S.
- Plant nursery, a place where young plants or trees are raised
Science
[edit]- Stellar nursery, cosmic dust cloud in which stars form
- Nursery habitat, where juveniles of a marine species occur
Other uses
[edit]- Farm team, where sportspeople can gain experience before playing for a major team
- Nursery handicap, in British and Irish Horse racing, a flat handicap race limited to two-year-olds
See also
[edit]- Nurse (disambiguation)
- Nursery rhyme, Children Song.
- Nursery web spider, of the family Pisauridae