nursery

noun, plural nurs·er·ies.

1. a room or place set apart for young children.
2. a nursery school or day nursery.
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.

noun plural -ries

1. 1. a room in a house set apart for use by children
   2. (as modifier)nursery wallpaper
2. a place where plants, young trees, etc, are grown commercially
3. an establishment providing residential or day care for babies and very young children; crèche
4. short for nursery school
5. anywhere serving to foster or nourish new ideas, etc
6. Also called: nursery cannon billiards
   1. a series of cannons with the three balls adjacent to a cushion, esp near a corner pocket
   2. a cannon in such a series