Nursery may refer to:

Childcare

Nursery (room) A nursery is usually, in American connotations, a bedroom within a house or other dwelling set aside for an infant or toddler. A typical nursery would contain a cradle or a crib (or similar type of bed), a table or platform for the purpose of ...

, a room within the house designed for the care of a young child or children. *

Nursery school A preschool, also known as nursery school, pre-primary school, or play school or creche, is an educational establishment or learning space offering early childhood education to children before they begin compulsory education at primary schoo ...

, a daycare facility for preschool-age children *

Prison nursery A prison nursery is a section of a prison that houses incarcerated mothers and their very young children. Prison nurseries are not common in correctional facilities in the United States, although prior to the 1950s many states had them and they are ...

, for imprisoned mothers with their young children

Places

* Nursery, Texas, unincorporated community in Victoria County, Texas, United States *

Nursery, Karachi Nursery ( ur, نرسرى ) is a residential area of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. Situated on the main city road Shahrah-e-Faisal, it is part of PECHS neighborhood within Jamshed Town Jamshed Town ( sd, جمشيد ٽائون , ur, ) lies in ...

, a suburb of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan *

Nursery Site, RI-273 The Nursery Site, RI-273 is a prehistoric archaeological site in Westerly, Rhode Island. Located near the Westerly Airport, this site has yielded evidence of Woodland Period stone tool work. The site was listed on the National Register of Histor ...

, historic site in Westerly, Rhode Island, United States * Nursery, British Columbia, a populated community in

British Columbia British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada, situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. It has a diverse geography, with rugged landscapes that include rocky coastlines, sandy beaches, ...

Music

* '' Nursery Suite'' (1931), by Edward Elgar * ''The Nursery'' (song cycle) (1870), by Modest Mussorgsky

Art

* ''The Nursery (Christmas Stockings)'' (1936), painting by Stanley Spencer (76.5x91.8cm)

Plants and gardens

Garden centre A garden centre (Commonwealth English spelling; U.S. nursery or garden center) is a retail operation that sells plants and related products for the domestic garden as its primary business. It is a development from the concept of the retail plant n ...

, independent, or lawn and garden departments of hardware and home improvement stores, often called "nurseries" in the U.S. *

Plant nursery A nursery is a place where plants are propagated and grown to a desired size. Mostly the plants concerned are for gardening, forestry or conservation biology, rather than agriculture. They include retail nurseries, which sell to the general p ...

, a place where young plants or trees are raised

Science

Stellar nursery Star formation is the process by which dense regions within molecular clouds in The "medium" is present further soon.-->interstellar space

, cosmic dust cloud in which stars form *

Nursery habitat In marine environments, a nursery habitat is a subset of all habitats where juveniles of a species occur, having a greater level of productivity per unit area than other juvenile habitats (Beck et al. 2001). Mangroves, salt marshes and seagrass ar ...

, where juveniles of a marine species occur

Other uses

Farm team In sports, a farm team, farm system, feeder team, feeder club, or nursery club is generally a team or club whose role is to provide experience and training for young players, with an agreement that any successful players can move on to a higher ...

, where sportspeople can gain experience before playing for a major team * Nursery handicap, in

British British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, ...

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Irish Irish may refer to: Common meanings * Someone or something of, from, or related to: ** Ireland, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe ***Éire, Irish language name for the isle ** Northern Ireland, a constituent unit ...

Horse racing, a

flat Flat or flats may refer to: Architecture * Flat (housing), an apartment in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and other Commonwealth countries Arts and entertainment * Flat (music), a symbol () which denotes a lower pitch * Flat (soldier), ...

handicap race limited to two-year-olds