Nidus: alternatives and connections

The nest of a bird of prey, as of an eagle or hawk; also a brood of such birds; eyrie. Shak. Also fig.: A human residence or resting p…

A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds, plants, etc.; the air vessel of a pu…

The substance of the cells which inclose the white of birds' eggs.

A doctrine that the genesis or production of living organisms can take place only through the agency of living germs or parents; -- op…

any of various tiny insects whose larvae are parasites on eggs and larvae of other insects; many are beneficial in destroying injuriou…

any of various tiny insects whose larvae are parasites on eggs and larvae of other insects; many are beneficial in destroying injuriou…

The nest complement of eggs of a bird.

A repository for holding things; a hinding place.

The cow blackbird (Molothrus ater), an American starling. Like the European cuckoo, it builds no nest, but lays its eggs in the nests…

One accustomed to climb rocks or crags; esp., one who makes a business of climbing the cliffs overhanging the sea to get the eggs of s…

A concretionary nodule of clay ironstone, of the size of a walnut or larger, so called by the ancients, who believed that the eagle tr…

A place where eggs are deposited (as by sea birds) or kept; a nest of eggs.

The hypothesis that all living things proceed from preexisting germs, and that these encase the germs of all future living things, inc…

Any substance supposed to be capable of absorbing, retaining, and transporting contagious or infectious germs; as, woolen clothes are…

A group of hymenopterous insects including the sand wasps. They excavate cells in earth, where they deposit their eggs, with the bodie…

Destructive to germs; -- applied to any agent which has a destructive action upon living germs, particularly bacteria, or bacterial ge…

To produce young; -- said of eggs; to come forth from the egg; -- said of the young of birds, fishes, insects, etc.

Applied to breeding from a male and female of the same parentage. See under Breeding.