Definition of Nestings

1. Noun. (plural of nesting) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Nestings

1. nesting [n] - See also: nesting

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nestings

nestable
nestbox
nestboxes
nested
nestedness
nester
nesters
nestful
nestfuls
nestin
nesting
nesting behaviour
nesting habitat
nesting place
nestings (current term)
nestle
nestled
nestler
nestlers
nestles
nestless
nestlike
nestling
nestlingly
nestlings
nestmate
nestmates
nestohedra
nestohedron

Literary usage of Nestings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1917)
"A STUDY OF SUBSEQUENT nestings AFTER THE LOSS OF THE FIRST.1 BY H. MOUSLEY. Plates XIH-XIV. IT is the byways I imagine in any science we may take up, ..."

2. Michigan Bird Life: A List of All the Bird Species Known to Occur in the by Walter Bradford Barrows (1912)
"In several other cases large nestings are said to have been broken up by heavy ... During the years 1874 and 1876 there were immense nestings near Shelby, ..."

3. A History of the Game Birds, Wild-fowl and Shore Birds of Massachusetts and by Edward Howe Forbush, Willey Ingraham Beecroft, Herbert Keightley Job, Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture (1912)
"There were many smaller nestings for years after the Petoskey nesting of 1878, ... There seem to have been two great nestings in Michigan in 1881. ..."

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