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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 nurs·ery /ˈnɝsri, ˈnɚ/
 托兒所,保育室;苗圃

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 nurs·ery /ˈnɝs(ə)rɪ/ 名詞
 苗圃,養殖場,嬰兒室,托兒所,保育室

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Nurs·er·y n.; pl. Nurseries
 1. The act of nursing. [Obs.] “Her kind nursery.”
 2. The place where nursing is carried on; as: (a) The place, or apartment, in a house, appropriated to the care of children. (b) A place where young of any species, plant or animal, are nourished preparatory to transfer elsewhere; especially a place where young trees, shrubs, vines, etc., are propagated for the purpose of transplanting; a plantation of young trees. (c) The place where anything is fostered and growth promoted. “Fair Padua, nursery of arts.”
    Christian families are the nurseries of the church on earth, as she is the nursery of the church in heaven.   --J. M. Mason.
 (d) That which forms and educates; as, commerce is the nursery of seamen.
 3. That which is nursed. [R.]
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 nursery
      n 1: a child's room for a baby [syn: baby's room]
      2: a building with glass walls and roof; for the cultivation
         and exhibition of plants under controlled conditions [syn:
          greenhouse, glasshouse]