Usually means: Traditional children's songs, simple lyrics.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word nursery rhyme:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. nursery rhyme: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. nursery rhyme: Merriam-Webster
  3. nursery rhyme: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. nursery rhyme: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. nursery rhyme: Collins English Dictionary
  6. nursery rhyme: Vocabulary.com
  7. nursery-rhyme: Wordnik
  8. nursery rhyme: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. nursery rhyme: Wiktionary
  10. nursery rhyme: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. nursery rhyme: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. nursery rhyme: Dictionary.com
  13. Nursery Rhyme (visual novel), Nursery Rhyme, Nursery rhyme: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. nursery rhyme: Rhymezone
  15. nursery rhyme: FreeDictionary.org
  16. nursery rhyme: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. nursery rhyme: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. NURSERY RHYME: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Nursery-rhyme, nursery rhyme: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nursery rhyme: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See nursery_rhymes as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (nursery rhyme)

noun:  A short poem or song for children, mostly anonymous or handed down by folklore

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