Usually means: Area where organisms reproduce, hatch.
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  1. spawning ground: Merriam-Webster
  2. spawning ground: Collins English Dictionary
  3. spawning-ground: Wordnik
  4. spawning ground: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. Spawning ground: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. spawning ground: TheFreeDictionary.com
  7. spawning ground: Wiktionary

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▸ noun:  A zone in a riverbed or lake where fish breed and lay eggs.

Similar:
spawning bed, gravel nest, spawn, fishing ground, frogspawn, nest, redd, frog spawn, bund, fishery, more...

Opposite:
barren, infertile, unproductive

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Similar:
spawning bed, gravel nest, spawn, fishing ground, frogspawn, nest, redd, frog spawn, bund, fishery, more...

Opposite:
barren, infertile, unproductive



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