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
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
The outside coat of the peritoneum resists germs, but its slippery, serous inner wall offers streptococci an ideal breeding place.
From Time Magazine Archive
The churn was the breeding place of innumerable blue-bottles, who in spite of its savoury attractions annoyed us very much by alighting on our food and on our faces.
From The Great War As I Saw It by Scott, Frederick George
