Nursery

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Nursery may refer to:

Childcare

  • 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

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, 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

  • Stellar nursery
    , cosmic dust cloud in which stars form
  • Nursery habitat, where juveniles of a marine species occur

Other uses

  • Farm team, where sportspeople can gain experience before playing for a major team
  • Nursery handicap, in
    handicap race limited to two-year-olds

See also