Nursery can refer to:
Business
- Nursery (farming) a farm or farm products retailer who commercially grows flowering plants, shrubs, and trees as ornamental plants for floristry, landscaping, or for horticultural purposes.
Childcare
- Nursery (room), a room within the house designed for the care of a young child or children
- Nursery school, a daycare facility for preschool-age children
- Prison nursery, for imprisoned mothers with their young children
Places
- Nursery, Texas, unincorporated community in Victoria County, Texas, United States
- Nursery, Karachi, a suburb of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
- Nursery Site, RI-273, historic site in Westerly, Rhode Island, United States
- Nursery, British Columbia, a populated community in British Columbia
Music
- Nursery Suite (1931), by Edward Elgar
- The Nursery (song cycle) (1870), by Modest Mussorgsky
Science
- Plant nursery, a place where young plants or trees are raised
- Stellar nursery, cosmic dust cloud in which stars form
- Nursery habitat, where juveniles of a marine species occur
Other
- Farm team, where sportspeople can gain experience before playing for a major team
Famous quotes containing the word nursery:
“There is still the feeling that women’s writing is a lesser class of writing, that ... what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, ... that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.”
—Erica Jong (b. 1942)
“The very nursery tales of this generation were the nursery tales of primeval races. They migrate from east to west, and again from west to east; now expanded into the “tale divine” of bards, now shrunk into a popular rhyme.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“... we have broken down the self-respecting spirit of man with nursery tales and priestly threats, and we dare to assert, that in proportion as we have prostrated our understanding and degraded our nature, we have exhibited virtue, wisdom, and happiness, in our words, our actions, and our lives!”
—Frances Wright (1795–1852)