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Definition: Collocalia nidifica
Bird's nest
\Bird's" nest`\, or Bird's-nest
\Bird's-nest\, n.
1. The nest in which a bird lays eggs and hatches her young.
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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.
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Note: The nests are found in caverns and fissures of cliffs
on rocky coasts, and are composed in part of alg[ae].
They are of the size of a goose egg, and in substance
resemble isinglass. See Illust. under
Edible.
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3. (Bot.) An orchideous plant with matted roots, of the genus
Neottia (
Neottia nidus-avis).
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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cores have been replaced by sugar.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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