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Bird's nest

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Bird's´ nest`
n.1.The nest in which a bird lays eggs and hatches her young.
2.(Cookery) The nest of a small swallow (Collocalia nidifica and several allied species), of China and the neighboring countries, which is mixed with soups.
3.(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a pudding containing apples whose cores have been replaced by sugar.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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Noun1.Bird's nestbird's nest - nest where birds lay their eggs and hatch their young
aerie, aery, eyrie, eyry - the lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle)
nest - a structure in which animals lay eggs or give birth to their young


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The cuckoo lays its egg in the strange bird's nest, and when the young one is hatched it shoulders its foster-brothers out and breaks at last the nest that has sheltered it.
Then, again, if you fix your eye upon this strange, crested, comb-like incrustation on the top of the mass --this green, barnacled thing, which the Greenlanders call the crown, and the Southern fishers the bonnet of the Right Whale; fixing your eyes solely on this, you would take the head for the trunk of some huge oak, with a bird's nest in its crotch.
Though, upon the whole, I greatly admire and even love the brave, the honest, and learned Captain; yet I take it very ill of him that he should so utterly ignore that case-bottle, seeing what a faithful friend and comforter it must have been, while with mittened fingers and hooded head he was studying the mathematics aloft there in that bird's nest within three or four perches of the pole.
 
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