nesting ground

noun

The place where an organism nests.

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Meanings

nounnesting ground (plural nesting grounds)

plural nesting grounds

  1. The place where an organism nests.

    "I heard of a man, once, who invaded the nesting grounds of wild geese," Maud said. "They killed him." "The geese?" "Yes, the geese. My brother told me about it when I was a little girl."

    1904, Jack London, chapter 30, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC
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