breeding place
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The area is a breeding place for the prothonotary warbler and habitat for dragonflies and damselflies.
From Washington Post • Nov. 21, 2016
The weedy patches of this sea are believed to be the breeding place of eels, which spread thence to the shores of neighboring continents.
From Time Magazine Archive
Refrigeration curbs but does not kill them; meat or fowl left standing at room temperature for a few hours becomes an ideal breeding place.
From Time Magazine Archive
"A breeding place for candidates," Joe had remarked at the time, thinking of professors; and sure enough, Wellesley had produced a candidate, although not a professor.
From Time Magazine Archive
I once went to see the breeding place of the Cock-of-the-Rock; and a darker or wilder place I have never been in.
From Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 1 January, 1897 by Various
