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
We have six inches of water on the roof, to keep the building cool�and how do we prevent this water from becoming a breeding place for mosquitoes?
From Time Magazine Archive
The outside coat of the peritoneum resists germs, but its slippery, serous inner wall offers streptococci an ideal breeding place.
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
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
