- a room or place set apart for young children.
- a nursery school or day nursery.
- a place where young trees or other plants are raised for transplanting, for sale, or for experimental study.
- any place in which something is bred, nourished, or fostered: The art institute has been the nursery of much great painting.
- any situation, condition, circumstance, practice, etc., serving to breed or foster something: Slums are nurseries for young criminals.
- a room in a house set apart for use by children
- (as modifier)
- a place where plants, young trees, etc, are grown commercially
- an establishment providing residential or day care for babies and very young children; crèche
- short for nursery school
- anywhere serving to foster or nourish new ideas, etc
- Also called: nursery cannon billiards
- a series of cannons with the three balls adjacent to a cushion, esp near a corner pocket
- a cannon in such a series
