figurative. The place or region in which anything is nurtured or sheltered in its earlier stage.
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| 释义 | the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > beginning > 			[noun]		 > the first part or beginning > the earliest stage(s) > place which nurtures early stage (3)		 cradle1590 figurative. The place or region in which anything is nurtured or sheltered in its earlier stage. swaddling-band1602 figurative and allusively. cunabula1864 With singular and plural agreement. A cradle; figurative the place where anything is nurtured in its beginnings, the earliest abode. | 
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