nidify
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin nīdificō (“build a nest”), from nīdus (“nest”) + faciō (“make, do”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
nidify (third-person singular simple present nidifies, present participle nidifying, simple past and past participle nidified)
- (zoology) To make a nest.
- 1854, Albany Hancock, “Observations on the Nidification of Gasterosteus aculeatus and Gasterosteus spinachia”, in The Zoologist, 12: 4409:
- It is only within the last few years that naturalists have clearly determined that some species of fish make nests for the reception of their spawn […] Five or six kinds are now ascertained to nidify; and of these, two belong to the genus Gasterosteus […]
- 1997, Gert-Jan van Dijk, Ainoi, Logoi, Mythoi: Fables in Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic Greek Culture, page 206:
- […] it may originally have explained why dung beetles do not appear when eagles nidify; […]
- 2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 123:
- Among the birds that nidify there and live throughout the year [...] the sultan bird detaches[.]
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Related terms[edit]
- and see: nidifugous
Translations[edit]
to make a nest
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