Word: Creche

Crèche or creche:

1. Day care center, day nursery
2. Organization of adults who take care of children in place of their parents. A hospital for orphaned infants; a foundling hospital or home for foundlings, infant children of unknown parents.
3. Nativity scene, a group of figures arranged to represent the birth of Jesus Christ
4. Crèche (zoology), animals taking care of young that are not their own. 
5. Marine Biology, About seven weeks after birth, emperor penguin chicks form groups called “creches." The penguins in a creche huddle together for protection and warmth, but they continue to be fed by their parents.

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