Nestling

/ˈnɛstlɪŋ/

Synonyms for "nestling" (170 found)

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Closest matches (34)

amorous dallianceapprenticeavifaunababybaby birdbeginnerbilling and cooingbirdbird of jovebird of junobird of minervabird of nightbird of passagebird of preybirdiebirdlifebirdlingbirdybundlingcage bird
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Noun(3 words)
baby birdchickschild

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birdjuvenilejuvenile personpersonyoung bird

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dependent youthhomebound youthraptor nestlingsongbird nestlingwaterfowl nestling

Collocations

6 entries
avian nestlingnestling carenestling developmentnestling plumagenestling stageyoung bird

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8 total sentences available.

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Strasbourg is also an ideal starting point for excursions across the Rhine, to châteaux nestling in the heart of vineyards, villages perching on the mountainside between lakes and forests, and other delights.

Source: tatoeba (1740774)

Then she gave him some dry figs and bread from her scrip, and whilst he was partaking of this fare she oft-time snatched a morsel from his mouth and ate it, as though she had been a nestling taking food from its mother's beak.

Source: tatoeba (6213125)

The prayer finished, they resumed their seat in the shadow of the boulder until the child fell asleep, nestling upon the broad breast of her protector.

Source: tatoeba (6310891)

The boy had never before strayed so far north as this from the nestling hamlet in which he had been deposited by the carrier from a railway station southward, one dark evening some few months earlier, and till now he had had no suspicion that such a wide, flat, low-lying country lay so near at hand, under the very verge of his upland world.

Source: tatoeba (11473151)

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