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
Augusto Francale, an amiable, middle-aged bachelor practicing law in Monte Calvario�a slum known in Naples as "the natural breeding place of evil"�recently organized a league to write a divorce law for the new Republic.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 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
When emphasis has been placed, by authorities, upon the location of Jamestown as a disease-producing factor, the implication has often been that the swampy area was a mosquito and malaria breeding place.
From Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 by Hughes, Thomas Proctor
