breeding ground
a place where animals breed or to which they return to breed.
an environment suitable for or fostering the development of an idea, thing, etc.: a breeding ground for violence.
Origin of breeding ground
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How to use breeding ground in a sentence
Long bottle-style feeders with yellow plastic flowers around nectar holes are breeding grounds for mold.
Your dirty bird feeder could be spreading disease | Melissa Hart | February 9, 2021 | Washington PostThey are actually going away from food sources and breeding grounds.
Underwater Noise Pollution Is Disrupting Ocean Life—But We Can Fix It | Aryn Baker | February 5, 2021 | TimeLong-distance migrants travel from their breeding grounds in Europe.
Around the world, birds are in crisis | Alison Pearce Stevens | December 3, 2020 | Science News For StudentsThis environment has become a breeding ground for false claims.
The email security market is littered with false claims. How to fix it | jakemeth | November 27, 2020 | FortuneIn spring when kingfishers arrive on their breeding grounds, males establish their nesting territory.
Three love stories about birds that will delight your heart | Laura Erickson | November 6, 2020 | Popular-Science
The absence of law and order creates the perfect breeding ground for revenge.
How India’s Honor Culture Perpetuates Mass Rape | Amana Fontanella-Khan | July 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOf course the Internet, where the cat is king, has proved a fertile breeding ground for these ventures.
Mayor Gardner noted that a lake that had served as a summer breeding ground for migratory cranes recently disappeared.
Visiting the Arctic Circle…Before It’s Irreversibly Changed | Terry Greene Sterling | April 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAt the time, New Orleans was a breeding ground for yellow fever and cholera.
Used, hubcap-free tires are well known to sequester standing water—a perfect breeding ground for the next generation of mosquitos.
Chikungunya: The Mosquito-Borne Virus That Contorts Your Limbs | Kent Sepkowitz | March 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt continues until mid-May, by which time the last of the migratory birds will have reached its distant breeding ground.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India | Douglas DewarWhat has he ever done, in all his dull days, to make that harmless mind a breeding-ground for every sort of degenerate idea?
Witching Hill | E. W. HornungIt is a breeding-ground for a whole new philosophy of heaven, hell, and the New Haven Railroad.
Shandygaff | Christopher MorleyThe family is at once the seat of the greatest liberty, and the home and breeding-ground of the greatest tyranny.
Happiness as Found in Forethought Minus Fearthought | Horace FletcherThe Farn Islands, off the coast of Northumberland, are considered to be the extreme southern limit of its breeding-ground.
British Birds in their Haunts | Rev. C. A. Johns
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