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Verb

bird-nest - gather birdnests; "They went birdnesting in the early morning"

gather, pull together, collect, garner - assemble or get together; "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together"

Mentioned in

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Asplenium
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bird's nest fern
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bird's-nest fungus
bird's-nest orchid
Bird's-nest pudding
bird's-nest soup

References in classic literature

It was more like a huge bird-nest than anything else, though it was a thousand times cruder in the weaving than any bird-nest.

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Wordsworth fished and bird-nested, climbing perilous crags and slippery rocks to find rare eggs.

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