nurse log
English
Noun
nurse log (plural nurse logs)
- A fallen tree which, as it decays, provides ecological facilitation to seedlings.
- 2018, Richard Powers, The Overstory, Vintage (2019), page 624:
- Already, seedlings root in the nurse logsʼ crevices, nourished by the rot.
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