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 December 18, Lawrence Booth, The Guardian:

     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

• Catalan: agre (ca) m
• Czech: líhniště n
• Danish: legeplads (da) c
• Finnish: lisääntymisalue; soidinpaikka (for some birds), kutupaikka (for fish)
• French: frayère (fr) f (for fish)
• German: Laichplatz m, Brutstätte (de) f, Brutplatz (de) m
• Greek: εκτροφείο (el) n (ektrofeío)
• Polish: lęgowisko (pl) n
• Russian: пито́мник (ru) m (pitómnik)
• Serbo-Croatian: uzgajalište (sh) n
• Slovak: liahnisko n
• Slovene: vzrejališče n
• Swedish: lekplats (sv) c
• Ukrainian: розплі́дник m (rozplídnyk)

figuratively

• Bulgarian: огнище (bg) n (ognište)
• Catalan: planter (ca) m
• French: vivier (fr) m, pépinière (fr) m
• German: Brutstätte (de) f, Nährboden (de) m
• Latin: sēminārium n
• Russian: пито́мник (ru) m (pitómnik), расса́дник (ru) m (rassádnik)
• Spanish: semillero, caldo de cultivo

See also

• fever swamp
• hotbed
• nidus