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| day nursery |
a nursery school in which preschool children, usu. of working parents, receive care and supervision during the day. |
| fisher spider |
any of a family of nursery-web spiders that have the ability to skate across and dive beneath the surface of water, also called a dock spider. |
| Humpty Dumpty |
(sometimes l.c.) an English nursery rhyme character shaped like a large egg, who fell off a wall, broke into pieces, and could not be reassembled. |
| Mother Goose |
the imaginary author of a collection of eighteenth-century English nursery rhymes. |
| Mother Hubbard |
a character in an eighteenth-century English nursery rhyme. [1/2 definitions] |
| nursery |
a day-care facility, or a nursery school. [1/3 definitions] |
| patty-cake |
the first words of a common nursery rhyme. [1/2 definitions] |
| preschool |
a school for children below the age for kindergarten; nursery school. [1/2 definitions] |
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