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
"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
But he did reason that the necessity for warm, deep, still salt water was an explanation for the choice of the Sargasso Sea as a breeding place.
From Time Magazine Archive
In this way the exposed manure pile serves to attract flies with a deceptive proffer of a breeding place.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
