(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
1.
A bird’s ~ is the home that it makes to lay its eggs in.
I can see an eagle’s ~ on the rocks.
N-COUNT: oft poss N
2.
When a bird ~s somewhere, it builds a ~ and settles there to lay its eggs.
Some species may ~ in close proximity to each other.
...~ing sites.
VERB: V, V-ing
3.
A ~ is a home that a group of insects or other creatures make in order to live in and give birth to their young in.
Some solitary bees make their ~s in burrows in the soil.
...a rat’s ~.
N-COUNT: usu poss N
4.
see also crow’s ~ , love ~
5.
When children fly the ~, they leave their parents’ home to live on their own.
When their children had flown the ~, he and his wife moved to a thatched cottage in Dorset.
= leave home
PHRASE: V inflects
6.
a hornet’s ~: see hornet