Nursery

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:

    When we leave our child in nursery school for the first time, it won’t be just our child’s feelings about separation that we will have to cope with, but our own feelings as well—from our present and from our past, parents are extra vulnerable to new tremors from old earthquakes.
    Fred Rogers (20th century)

    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)

    Yes, I know.
    Death sits with his key in my lock.
    Not one day is taken for granted.
    Even nursery rhymes have put me in hock.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)