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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Bird's-nest pudding, a pudding containing apples whose cores have been replaced by sugar.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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"Bird's nest" Quotes from Famous Books

... such a look of hate and fear in Herr Carovius's face that Dorothea was almost frightened. His hair was as towsled as the twigs of an abandoned bird's nest; water was dripping from the corners of his mouth; his eyes were inflamed; his glasses were on the tip of ...

— The Goose Man • Jacob Wassermann

... a schoolboy; who, being overjoy'd with finding a bird's nest shows it his companion, ...

— Much Ado About Nothing • William Shakespeare [Knight edition]

... known occasionally to lay their eggs in other birds' nests. Now let us suppose that the ancient progenitor of our European cuckoo had the habits of the American cuckoo, and that she occasionally laid an egg in another bird's nest. If the old bird profited by this occasional habit through being enabled to emigrate earlier or through any other cause; or if the young were made more vigorous by advantage being taken of the ...

— On the Origin of Species - 6th Edition • Charles Darwin

... round us. Still and black The great woods climbed the mountain at our back; And on their skirts, where yet the lingering day On the shorn greenness of the clearing lay, The brown old farm-house like a bird's nest hung. With home-life sounds the desert air was stirred: The bleat of sheep along the hill we heard, The bucket plashing in the cool, sweet well, The pasture-bars that clattered as they fell; Dogs barked, fowls fluttered, cattle lowed; the gate Of the barn-yard creaked beneath the merry ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 9, No. 54, April, 1862 • Various

... roads, whistling as he went, and occasionally tossing his battered cap in the air. He often lingered on his way, now to cut down a particularly tempting switch from the hedge, now to hunt for a possible bird's nest. It was very nearly six o'clock when he reached the back avenue, swung himself over the gate, which was locked, and ran softly on the dewy grass in the direction of the laurel bush. Old Betty had given him most careful instructions, ...

— A World of Girls - The Story of a School • L. T. Meade

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