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
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
The outside coat of the peritoneum resists germs, but its slippery, serous inner wall offers streptococci an ideal breeding place.
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
The danger from the ships of other European peoples seemed more immediate and formidable than those from the mosquito, with its breeding place in the nearby swamp, and from the foul and brackish drinking water.
From Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 by Thomas Proctor Hughes
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