Nursery

Nursery may refer to:

Childcare

• Nursery (room), a room within the house designed for the care of a young child or children.
• Nursery school, a daycare facility for preschool-age children
• Prison nursery, for imprisoned mothers with their young children

Places

• Nursery, Texas, unincorporated community in Victoria County, Texas, United States
• Nursery, Karachi, a suburb of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
• Nursery Site, RI-273, historic site in Westerly, Rhode Island, United States
• Nursery, British Columbia, a populated community in British Columbia

Music

• Nursery Suite (1931), by Edward Elgar
• The Nursery (song cycle) (1870), by Modest Mussorgsky

Art

• The Nursery (1660s), painting by Gerard Dou, lost with the sinking of the Vrouw Maria in 1771
• The Nursery (Christmas Stockings) (1936), painting by Stanley Spencer (76.5x91.8cm)

Plants and gardens

• Garden centre, independent, or lawn and garden departments of hardware and home improvement stores, often called "nurseries" in the U.S.
• Plant nursery, a place where young plants or trees are raised

Science

• Stellar nursery, cosmic dust cloud in which stars form
• Nursery habitat, where juveniles of a marine species occur

Other uses

• Farm team, where sportspeople can gain experience before playing for a major team
• Nursery handicap, in British and Irish Horse racing, a flat handicap race limited to two-year-olds

See also

• Nurse (disambiguation)
• Nursery rhyme, Children Song.
• Nursery web spider, of the family Pisauridae