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bird-nest

bird-nest is the alternative form of bird's nest.

Meaning of bird's nest

Noun

bird's nest (plural bird's nests or birds' nests)

  1. A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate its eggs and rear its young.
  2. Any of several plants having some resemblance to the typical nest of a bird, eg., the wild carrot (Daucus carota).
  3. Any tangle of fibers resembling a typical nest of a bird.

Forms of bird-nest

pluralbird-nests

Questions about bird-nest

What is bird-nest the alternative form of?
Bird-nest is the alternative form of bird's nest.

Words near bird-nest in the dictionary

  1. bird-in-a-bush
  2. bird-like
  3. bird-lime
  4. bird-loving
  5. Bird-Meertens formalism
  6. bird-nest
  7. bird-nesting
  8. bird-nests
  9. bird-of-paradise
  10. bird-rich
  11. bird-scarer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bird-nest (page history and authors); bird's nest (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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