Breeding-ground meaning

The definition of a breeding ground is a location, area, or conditions under which something is likely to develop or multiply.

An example of a breeding ground is a dirty, filthy room with food left out so that bacteria was very likely to grow on it.

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A place where animals breed.
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A place or set of circumstances that encourages the development of certain ideas or conditions.

A laboratory that is a breeding ground for new inventions.

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A place where many animals of a specified kind breed.

Swamps are breeding grounds for mosquitoes.

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A place, condition, etc. that fosters some activity, idea, etc.
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Alternative form of breeding-ground.
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A place or region where animals go to breed.
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(figuratively) A place or institution seen as creating large numbers of a stated thing, type of person, etc.
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Breeding-ground Sentence Examples

  • Refuse areas are the perfect breeding ground for all kinds of pests.

  • In 1557, however, a great flood caused the Tiber to change its course, so that it no longer flowed under the walls of the castle, but some half a mile farther west; and its old bed (Fiume Morto) has ever since then served as a breeding ground for the malarial mosquito (Anopheles claviger).

  • The song and insectivorous birds - thrushes, flycatchers, vireos and woodpeckers - of this latitude, are well represented, and the high plateaus (particularly the Pocono plateau) have especial ornithological interest as the tarrying-places, during the migratory seasons, of many species of birds whose natural breeding ground is much farther north.

  • It represented an important breeding ground for frogs and was a definite feeding ground for owls and bats.

  • By undermining social cohesion, inequality provides a breeding ground for crime and disorder.

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