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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
breeding ground
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The whales' breeding grounds are off the west coast of Mexico.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Culture-specific rules and procedures of turn-taking provide ample breeding ground for misunderstanding.
▪ Macroconsolidation within organizations provides an ideal breeding ground for insulation, isolation, and illusion.
▪ The race, the breeding ground, might be missed, both in sporting and traditional terms, should it cease.
▪ Where scum settles on wetted surfaces in kitchens, it creates an ideal breeding ground for bacteria.
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breeding ground

n. (alternative form of breeding-ground English)

WordNet
breeding ground

n. a place where animals breed

Wikipedia
Breeding Ground (band)

Breeding Ground were a Canadian alternative rock band in the 1980s, based out of Toronto, Ontario. Lead singer John Shirreff and guitarist Hugh Gladish were the only consistent members of the band, and they founded the group in 1981 with original bassist Jonathan Strayer.

Breeding ground (disambiguation)

Breeding ground may refer to:

  • Breeding ground (habitat), an ecological or environmental area that is inhabited by a particular species of animal, plant or other type of organism
  • Breeding Ground (band), a 1980s Canadian alternative rock band

Usage examples of "breeding ground".

He could offer them one of the giant caverns to the west of the cave complex as a breeding ground.

If we bypass them, we've left behind a breeding ground for wolves, bears, and wild boar.

And the breeding ground -- the Tuskason Rift -- lies inside the Meral Current.

As if to balance the pain and suffering, War has also been the breeding ground for some of our greatest dreams and accomplishments.

Another bonanza was the development of world trade routes, which by Roman times effectively joined the populations of Europe, Asia, and North Africa into one giant breeding ground for microbes.

There are still some people around town who remind you that Houston, Jaworski's home, is a breeding ground for some of the most vicious golf-hustlers in the country -- the kind who will lose the first 15 holes to you for $100 each, then whack you for $5000 a hole on the last three.

Now, I rather suspected that T'kul would react in that fashion To be sure we've all of Igen, Ista and Southern Boll as breeding ground for fire lizards, but I want you to get Manora to rig you something for those other lizard eggs you found and bring them back here.