spawning ground

noun

1

: a place where animals (such as fish or frogs) go to lay eggs

2

: a place where something is created or produced often in large numbers

The country is a spawning ground for terrorists.

Examples of spawning ground in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Beyond the waterway’s importance to the surf, Chouinard and his pals knew that as recently as the 1940s, the Ventura had been a major spawning ground for thousands of steelhead trout and Chinook salmon. — David Gelles, Time, 9 Sep. 2025

This caldera lake, formed in the crater made by a volcanic eruption, is the largest sockeye salmon spawning ground in Eurasia. — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025

Below, salmon catapult themselves upstream to return to their spawning ground as huge bears compete for fresh fish. — Longreads, 12 Apr. 2024

That’s more than just the Fox crowd regurgitating the right-wing narrative of California as the spawning ground of social evils. — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2024

South Fork Wind spans Cox Ledge, a spawning ground for Atlantic cod and 25 other species vital to the marine ecosystem and commercial fishing. — Will Sennott, ProPublica, 18 Apr. 2023

Rhymes for spawning ground

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