bird's-nest

• POS: Verb (intransitive)

CIDE DICTIONARY

bird's-nest, n. 

•  The nest in which a bird lays eggs and hatches her young.  [1913 Webster]
•  The nest of a small swallow (Collocalia nidifica and several allied species), of China and the neighboring countries, which is mixed with soups.  [1913 Webster]

  " The nests are found in caverns and fissures of cliffs on rocky coasts, and are composed in part of algæ. They are of the size of a goose egg, and in substance resemble isinglass. See Illust. under Edible."  [1913 Webster]
•  An orchideous plant with matted roots, of the genus Neottia (Neottia nidus-avis).  [1913 Webster]

Bird's-nest pudding, a pudding containing apples whose cores have been replaced by sugar. -- Yellow bird's nest, a plant, the Monotropa hypopitys.