bird's nest : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: bird's nest	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for bird's nest
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bird's nest n nest where birds lay their eggs and hatch their young [syn: bird's nest, bird nest, birdnest]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bird's nest \Bird's" nest`\, [or] Bird's-nest \Bird's-nest\, n. 1. The nest in which a bird lays eggs and hatches her young. 2. (Cookery) The nest of a small swallow ({Collocalia nidifica} and several allied species), of China and the neighboring countries, which is mixed with soups. Note: The nests are found in caverns and fissures of cliffs on rocky coasts, and are composed in part of alg[91]. They are of the size of a goose egg, and in substance resemble isinglass. See Illust. under {Edible}.