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(by extension) A modern healthcare facility for this purpose, incorporating an incubator.
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(uncountable) A children's game of forming string into various shapes around one's fingers.
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(figuratively) Infancy, or very early life.
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A number of babies that lies in a cradle.
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An infant raised in the same cradle as another.
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One who or that which cradles.
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Alternative form of cradle song [A lullaby.]
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A representation of the nativity scene.
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A camera, often in a zoo, usually monitoring the birth or early life of the cubs of a family of mammals.
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The business of cultivating land, raising stock etc.
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An animal being raised in an incubator
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(chiefly in the plural) The cradle, birthplace, or origin of something.
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A technique practiced on newborn, usually premature, infants wherein the infant is held, skin-to-skin, with an adult.
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A cradlesong, a soothing song to calm children or lull them to sleep.
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A collection of live wild animals as an exhibition historically associated with the aristocracy and considered a precursor of modern zoos.
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(agriculture, zoology) A place where animals breed, or where young animals are naturally or artificially reared (for example, on a farm).
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(in Mexico) A brightly coloured skull face icon, placed on the grave of the deceased to celebrate their life during festivals and feast days.
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