Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A water-bottom on which fish deposit their spawn; hence, the body or extent of water to which they resort to spawn; a breeding-place.
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Examples
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The James has always been a favourite spawning-ground for sturgeon.
Virginia: the Old Dominion Cortelle Hutchins
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A little further down, not many months ago, there was observed a great commotion in the stream, as of some big beast swimming slowly; the level was netted, and they hauled out a great sturgeon, who had somehow lost his way, and was trying to find a spawning-ground.
At Large Arthur Christopher Benson 1893
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Satirist, after long serving as a spawning-ground to envy, hatred and malice, now enters upon the decline of an unworthy old age.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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