Nursery may refer to:
Childcare
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Nursery (room), a room within the house designed for the care of a young child or children.
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Nursery school, a daycare facility for preschool-age children
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Prison nursery, for imprisoned mothers with their young children
Places
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Nursery, Texas
Nursery is an unincorporated community in Victoria County, Texas, United States. It is part of the Victoria Metropolitan Statistical Area
In the United States, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) is a geographical region with a relatively high ...
, unincorporated community in Victoria County, Texas, United States
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Nursery, Karachi, a suburb of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
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Nursery Site, RI-273, historic site in Westerly, Rhode Island, United States
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Nursery, British Columbia, a populated community in
British Columbia
Music
* ''
Nursery Suite'' (1931), by Edward Elgar
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''The Nursery'' (song cycle) (1870), by Modest Mussorgsky
Art
* ''The Nursery (Christmas Stockings)'' (1936), painting by Stanley Spencer (76.5x91.8cm)
Plants and gardens
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Garden centre, independent, or lawn and garden departments of hardware and home improvement stores, often called "nurseries" in the U.S.
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Plant nursery, a place where young plants or trees are raised
Science
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Stellar nursery, cosmic dust cloud in which stars form
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Nursery habitat, where juveniles of a marine species occur
Other uses
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Farm team, where sportspeople can gain experience before playing for a major team
* Nursery handicap, in
British and
Irish Horse racing
Horse racing is an equestrian performance sport, typically involving two or more horses ridden by jockeys (or sometimes driven without riders) over a set distance for competition. It is one of the most ancient of all sports, as its basic p ...
, a
flat handicap race limited to
two-year-olds
See also
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Nurse (disambiguation)
A nurse is a healthcare professional.
Nurse or nurses may also refer to:
Occupations and activities
* Breastfeeding, also known as "nursing"
* Wet nurse, a woman who breastfeeds the baby of another
* Nursery nurse, a specialist in early childh ...
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Nursery rhyme
A nursery rhyme is a traditional poem or song for children in Britain and many other countries, but usage of the term dates only from the late 18th/early 19th century. The term Mother Goose rhymes is interchangeable with nursery rhymes.
From t ...
, Children Song.
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Nursery web spider
Nursery web spiders (Pisauridae) is a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1890. They resemble wolf spiders (Lycosidae) except for several key differences. Wolf spiders have two very prominent eyes in addition to the o ...
, of the family ''Pisauridae''
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