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
Wall Street, he bellowed, was the hotbed and breeding place of the worst form of gambling that ever cursed the country.
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
Possibly its proper breeding place is on Novaya Zemlya at the inland lakes a little way from the coast.
From The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by Leslie, Alexander, fl. 1879-1882
