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

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

  • Plant nursery, a place where young plants or trees are raised
  • Garden centre, retailer that sells plants and related products

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