nidify
English
Etymology
From Latin nīdificō (“build a nest”), from nīdus (“nest”) + faciō (“make, do”).
Pronunciation
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Verb
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", 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; […]
- 1854, Albany Hancock, "Observations on the Nidification of Gasterosteus aculeatus and Gasterosteus spinachia", The Zoologist 12: 4409
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Related terms
- and see: nidifugous