nests
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Definitions
noun
- A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
- A place used by another mammal, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.
- A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation.
- A retreat, or place of habitual resort.
verb
- (of animals) To build or settle into a nest.
- To settle into a home.“We loved the new house and were nesting there in two days!”
- To successively neatly fit inside another.“I bought a set of nesting mixing bowls for my mother.”
- To place in, or as if in, a nest.