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Webster 1913 Edition
Bird's-nest
{
, Bird’s′ nestˊ
, orBird’s-nest
}Noun.
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. ☞ The nests are found in caverns and fissures of cliffs on rocky coasts, and are composed in part of algæ. They are of the size of a goose egg, and in substance resemble isinglass. See Illust. under
Edible
. 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, a pudding containing apples whose cores have been replaced by sugar.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
.