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BREEDING GROUND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does breeding ground mean? 

BREEDING GROUND (noun)
  The noun BREEDING GROUND has 1 sense:

1. a place where animals breedplay

  Familiarity information: BREEDING GROUND used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BREEDING GROUND (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A place where animals breed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("breeding ground" is a kind of...):

parcel; parcel of land; piece of ground; piece of land; tract (an extended area of land)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "breeding ground"):

pesthole (a breeding ground for epidemic disease)

rookery (a breeding ground for gregarious birds (such as rooks))


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