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noun

Bird's-nest, Bird's nest n.

The nest in which a bird lays eggs and hatches her young.

(Cookery) The nest of a small swallow (Collocalia nidifica and several allied species), of China and the neighboring countries, which is mixed with soups. Note: The nests are found in caverns and fissures of cliffs on rocky coasts, and are composed in part of algae. They are of the size of a goose egg, and in substance resemble isinglass.

(Bot.) An orchideous plant with matted roots, of the genus Neottia (Neottia nidus-avis).

Bird's-nest pudding, a pudding containing apples whose cores have been replaced by sugar.

Yellow bird's nest, a plant, the Monotropa hypopitys.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... with a pretty baby bunnie, or perhaps a bird's nest of helpless fledglings, but Mary's pet ...

— The Girl Scouts at Bellaire - Or Maid Mary's Awakening • Lilian C. McNamara Garis

... days they gambolled in the meadow, plucking the sweet wild grasses—and often and often they clambered up the mountain side, knee deep in the heather, searching for frechans and wild honey, and sometimes they found a bird's nest—but they only peeped into it, they never touched the eggs or allowed their breath to fall upon them, for next to their little mother they loved the mountain, and next to the mountain they loved the wild birds ...

— Irish Fairy Tales • Edmund Leamy

... eagerly after breakfast. On about the only tree in the plantation with a fork to it a nest balanced precariously. It had in it three pale-blue eggs splotched with light-brown. It appeared to be a black-bird's nest with another egg or ...

— Happy Days • Alan Alexander Milne

... feelin' knocky about yer mount, er yer won't hev no confidence in him, an' will lose. I want ter say ter yer right now that this hoss what looks like ther last rose o' summer, ther last run o' shad, an' ther breakin' up o' a hard winter in a last year's bird's nest, is all right, an' he can't lose this race. Ride him true, an' don't give him ther gad none. All yer got ter do is ter encourage him by a word now an' then, an' pilot him straight ter ...

— Ted Strong's Motor Car • Edward C. Taylor

... Objects.—A bird's nest in an adjacent meadow; a ground-hog's hole; a musk-rat's home; crayfish or clams in the stream near by; a pine (or other) tree; a toad's day-resort; the soil of a field; the pests of a neighbouring orchard; a stone-heap or quarry; ...

— Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study • Ontario Ministry of Education

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