breeding ground

1. 1.

   a place where animals breed

   Broadertract

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Questions about breeding ground

What does breeding ground mean?

breeding ground means "a place where animals breed".

Is breeding ground a common word?

breeding ground is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.