单词 | nest-building |
释义 | > as lemmasnest-building nest-building n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by habitat > [adjective] > that builds nests nest-composing1601 pensile1791 nest-building1826 branch-building1868 the world > animals > birds > nest or bird defined by > [noun] > building nests nest-building1826 1826 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1971) VI. 571 Twittering nest-building Birds. 1895 Daily News 19 Dec. 2/3 A lesson from the magpie on the art of nest-building. 1982 I. Hamilton Robert Lowell xiv. 224 Lowell had, of course, come close to ‘settling down’ before, and on at least two occasions the prospect had induced a lively panic; he had recoiled from Jean Stafford's nest-building efforts. < as lemmas |
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