nurse log

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nurse log (plural nurse logs)

  1. A fallen tree which, as it decays, provides ecological facilitation to seedlings.
    • 2018, Richard Powers, The Overstory, Vintage (2019), page 624:
      Already, seedlings root in the nurse logsʼ crevices, nourished by the rot.

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