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nesting ground

nesting ground noun: the place where an organism nests.

Noun

nesting ground (plural nesting grounds)

  1. The place where an organism nests.
    • "I heard of a man, once, who invaded the nesting grounds of wild geese," Maud said. "They killed him."
      "The geese?"
      "Yes, the geese. My brother told me about it when I was a little girl."1904, Jack London, chapter 30, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC

Forms of nesting ground

pluralnesting grounds

Questions about nesting ground

What does nesting ground mean?
Nesting ground means the place where an organism nests.
What part of speech is nesting ground?
Nesting ground is a noun.
What is the plural of nesting ground?
The plural of nesting ground is nesting grounds.

Words near nesting ground in the dictionary

  1. nesting
  2. nesting box
  3. nesting boxes
  4. nesting doll
  5. nesting dolls
  6. nesting ground
  7. nesting together
  8. nestings
  9. nestitherapy
  10. nestle
  11. nestle-bird

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