noun that which is nursed.
2. nursery ·noun the place where nursing is carried on.
3. nursery ·noun the act of nursing.
4. nursery ·noun the place where anything is fostered and growth promoted.
5. nursery ·noun that which forms and educates; as, commerce is the nursery of seamen.
6. nursery ·noun the place, or apartment, in a house, appropriated to the care of children.
7. nursery ·noun a place where young trees, shrubs, vines, ·etc., are propagated for the purpose of transplanting; a plantation of young trees.