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nurse logs

nurse logs is the plural of nurse log.

Meaning of nurse log

Noun

nurse log (plural nurse logs)

  1. A fallen tree which, as it decays, provides ecological facilitation to seedlings.
    • Already, seedlings root in the nurse logsʼ crevices, nourished by the rot.2018, Richard Powers, The Overstory, Vintage (2019), page 624

Questions about nurse logs

What is nurse logs the plural of?
Nurse logs is the plural of nurse log.

Words near nurse logs in the dictionary

  1. nurse
  2. nurse assistant
  3. nurse assistants
  4. nurse auxiliary
  5. nurse log
  6. nurse logs
  7. nurse merger
  8. nurse practitioner
  9. nurse practitioners
  10. Nurse Ratched
  11. Nurse Ratcheds

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