Bird’s-nest

1. n. An orchideous plant with matted roots, of the genus Neottia (N. nidus-avis.)
2. n. The nest in which a bird lays eggs and hatches her young.
3. n. The nest of a small swallow (Collocalia nidifica and several allied species), of China and the neighboring countries, which is mixed with soups.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.