Nursery

Nursery may refer to:

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

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 uses

  • Farm team, where sportspeople can gain experience before playing for a major team
  • Nursery handicap, in British and Irish Horse racing, a flat handicap race limited to two-year-olds

See also

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