How to spell nursery

Nursery is spelled N-U-R-S-E-R-Y.

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What it means: A place where plants are grown.

In a sentence: The little boy planted seeds in the nursery garden.

Same family: nurse, nursing, nursery-school, daycare, crib. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Nursery comes from the word “nurse,” which originally meant ‘to care for or nourish.’ Over time, it came to mean both a room for babies and also a place where young plants are grown and cared for.

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