breeding-ground

breeding-ground

See also: breeding ground

English

Alternative forms

• breeding ground

Noun

breeding-ground (plural breeding-grounds)

1. A place or region where animals go to breed.
2. (figuratively) A place or institution seen as creating large numbers of a stated thing, type of person, etc.
   • 2007, Lawrence Booth, The Guardian, 18 December 2007:

     What, wonder the denigrators, is county cricket for (if you ignore for a moment the small matter of providing a breeding-ground for the Test team)?

Hypernyms

• ground

Translations

place where animals breed

Danish: legeplads (da) c Finnish: lisääntymisalue; soidinpaikka (for some birds), kutupaikka (for fish) French: frayère (fr) f (for fish)

German: Laichplatz m Greek: εκτροφείο (el) n (ektrofeío) Russian: пито́мник (ru) m (pitómnik) Swedish: lekplats (sv) c

figuratively

Catalan: planter (ca) m French: vivier (fr) m, pépinière (fr) m Latin: sēminārium n

Russian: пито́мник (ru) m (pitómnik), расса́дник (ru) m (rassádnik) Spanish: semillero, caldo de cultivo

See also

• hotbed
• nidus