单词 | bottle nest |
释义 | > as lemmasbottle nest bottle nest n. a bottle or sac-shaped bird's nest, such as that of the long-tailed tit, some weavers, and swallows. ΚΠ 1823 S. Shaw Nature Displayed IV. p. xvii (heading) The Bottle-Nests of the Baya, or African Oriental Sparrow. 1924 Wilson Bull. 36 193 Formerly an inhabitant of the cliff to which it [sc. Cliff Swallow] attached its bottle nest of mud or clay, it now selects the exterior walls of a barn. 2009 R. Ellis Go with Flow viii. 62 They disappeared into the sweat lodge like a flock of fairy martins flying into their bottle nests. < as lemmas |
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