nursery area
Biology
noun
An area, usually offering plentiful food, in which the juveniles of a marine species undergo growth and development.
Origin
1920s; earliest use found in American Journal of International Law.
- auto-erotic
- autoerotic asphyxia
- auto-erotic asphyxiation
- auto-eroticism
- autoerotism
- auto-everything
- auto-exposure
- autofacture
- auto-fade
- auto fade-in
- auto fade-out
- auto-fiction
- autofill
- autoflare
- auto flash
- autofluorescence
- autofluorescent
- autofocus
- autofocusing
- auto-follow
- auto-following
- autofrettage
- autofrettaged
- autogamic
- autogamous