释义 |
ˈnest-like, a. [f. nest n. + -like.] Resembling a nest.
a1793G. White Selborne, Invitation, Where nods in air the pensile, nest-like bower. 1816Kirby & Sp. Entomol. xxi. (1818) II. 262, I once found it..in the nest-like umbel of the wild carrot. 1864Tennyson En. Ard. 59 He..made a home For Annie, neat and nestlike. |