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BREEDING GROUND
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("breeding ground" is a kind of...):
parcel; parcel of land; piece of ground; piece of land; tract (an extended area of land)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "breeding ground"):
pesthole (a breeding ground for epidemic disease)
rookery (a breeding ground for gregarious birds (such as rooks))