nestling

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: nest=ling

CIDE DICTIONARY

nestling, n. 

•  A young bird which has not abandoned the nest.  Piers Plowman.  [1913 Webster]
•  A nest; a receptacle.  Bacon.  [1913 Webster]

nestling, a. 

 Newly hatched; being yet in the nest.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

nestling, n. a bird that is too young to leave its nest.

THESAURUS

nestling

amorous dalliance, apprentice, avifauna, baby, baby bird, beginner, billing and cooing, bird, bird of Jove, bird of Juno, bird of Minerva, bird of night, bird of passage, bird of prey, birdie, birdlife, birdling, birdy, bundling, cage bird, calf, callow, caressing, catechumen, catling, chick, chickling, chicky, colt, cub, cuddling, cygnet, dalliance, deb, debutant, dewy, diving bird, dogie, dove, duckling, eagle, eaglet, entrant, ever-new, evergreen, fawn, firsthand, fish-eating bird, fledgling, flightless bird, foal, fondling, fowl, fresh, freshman, fruit-eating bird, fryer, fulmar, game bird, gosling, green, greenhorn, greeny, hugging, immature, infant, insect-eating bird, intact, kid, kissing, kit, kitten, lamb, lambkin, learner, litter, lollygagging, lovemaking, maiden, maidenly, migrant, migratory bird, necking, neophyte, neoteric, nest, new, newcomer, novice, novitiate, nuzzling, original, oscine bird, owl, passerine bird, peacock, peafowl, peahen, perching bird, petting, pigeon, piglet, pigling, polliwog, pristine, probationer, pullet, pup, puppy, ratite, raw, raw recruit, recruit, rookie, sea bird, seed-eating bird, sempervirent, sexual intercourse, shoat, shore bird, snuggling, songbird, spooning, squab, storm petrel, stormy petrel, swan, tadpole, tenderfoot, trainee, tyro, unbeaten, undeveloped, unfledged, unhandled, untouched, untried, untrodden, unused, vernal, virgin, virginal, wading bird, warbler, water bird, waterfowl, weaner, whelp, wildfowl, yeanling, young

ROGET THESAURUS

nestling

Infant

N infant, babe, baby, babe in arms, nurseling, suckling, yearling, weanling, papoose, bambino, kid, vagitus, child, bairn, little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin, bantling, bratling, elf, youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker, callant, whipster, whippersnapper, whiffet, schoolboy, hobbledehoy, hopeful, cadet, minor, master, scion, sap, seedling, tendril, olive branch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow, codlin, codling, foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten, lamb, lambkin, aurelia, caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha, orphan, pupa, staddle, girl, lass, lassie, wench, miss, damsel, demoiselle, maid, maiden, virgin, hoyden, infantine, infantile, puerile, boyish, girlish, childish, babyish, kittenish, baby, newborn, unfledged, new-fledged, callow, in the cradle, in swaddling clothes, in long clothes, in arms, in leading strings, at the breast, in one's teens.