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birdsnest

birdsnest 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 birdsnest

pluralbirdsnests

Origin of birdsnest

From bird + -s- + nest.

Phrases with birdsnest

Questions about birdsnest

What is birdsnest the alternative form of?
Birdsnest is the alternative form of bird's nest.

Words near birdsnest in the dictionary

  1. birdskins
  2. birdsmouth
  3. birdsmouthed
  4. birdsmouthing
  5. birdsmouths
  6. birdsnest
  7. birdsnest soup
  8. birdsnests
  9. birdsome
  10. birdsona
  11. birdsonas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: birdsnest (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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