Definitions for "Bird's nest"
Keywords:  nest, soup, saliva, hatch, seaweed
The nest in which a bird lays eggs and hatches her young.
The nest of a small swallow (Collocalia nidifica and several allied species), of China and the neighboring countries, which is mixed with soups.
The nests in making bird's nest soups are exclusively those of swiflets, the birds from the family of common swallow. These highly prized nests are built and clung to the ceiling of the caves as high as 70m by the birds mostly of seaweed that is mixed by their own saliva, making the process of harvesting an ordeal and expensive. Swiflets nests are mostly found on cliffs in areas along the Southern Chinese coast and South East Asia. Learn more...
Keywords:  nidus, neottia, orchideous, avis, genus
An orchideous plant with matted roots, of the genus Neottia (Neottia nidus-avis).
a small portion of the fleece that is found at the base of the neck which often becomes highly contaminated with hay or other feed materials. It may extend along the backline of the animal. It should be removed. Good compost material.
Keywords:  grass, lie, deep, cupped, ball
Where a ball lies in deep grass.
A lie in which the ball is cupped in deep grass.