1. A room or area in a household set apart for the use of children.
2. A place for the temporary care of children in the absence of their parents.
3. A nursery school.
4. A place where plants are grown for sale, transplanting, or experimentation.
5. A place in which something is produced, fostered, or developed.

1. the act of nursing.
2. A place where nursing is carried on; as:
3. that which forms and educates.
4. that which is nursed.

1. the act of nursing.
2. the place where nursing is carried on.
3. the place, or apartment, in a house, appropriated to the care of children.
4. A place where young of any species, plant or animal, are nourished preparatory to transfer elsewhere
5. the place where anything is fostered and growth promoted.
6. that which forms and educates.
7. that which is nursed.

1. the act of nursing; tender care and attendance.
2. that which is the object of a nurse's care.
3. A place or apartment set apart for children.
4. A place where trees are raised from seed or otherwise in order to be transplanted; a place where vegetables, flowering plants, and trees are raised (as by budding or grafting) with a view to sale.
5. the place where anything is fostered and its growth promoted.
6. in fish-culture, a shallow box or trough of suitable size used for feeding and nursing young fish through the first six or eight months after the yolk-sac is absorbed.
7. occupation, condition, or circumstances in which some quality may be fostered or promoted.
8. in english billiards, the section, about 2 feet by 6, farthest from balk: it may extend along the cushion almost to the middle pocket: formerly a condition rather than a locality.

1. a child's room for a baby
2. a building with glass walls and roof; for the cultivation and exhibition of plants under controlled conditions