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Definition of Nidicolous
1. Adjective. (of birds) remaining in the nest for a time after hatching.
Definition of Nidicolous
1. Adjective. (zoology) Tending to stay at the nest or birthplace for a long time after birth, due to dependence on the parents for feeding and protection. ¹
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Definition of Nidicolous
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nidicolous
Literary usage of Nidicolous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Well ' flying, aquatic, nidicolous; with all the four toes webbed together. ...
Piscivorous, nidicolous, waders; with complicated hypo tarsus and with long ..."
2. Zoology: An Elementary Text-book by Arthur Everett Shipley, Ernest William MacBride (1904)
"nidicolous; wings transformed into rowing paddles ; feathers small and scale-like.
... nidicolous, well flying, pelagic; sheath of bill compound. ..."
3. The Birds of North and Middle America: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Higher by Robert Ridgway (1919)
"... (nearly nidicolous) ; habits aquatic. The Lari are long-winged swimming birds,
of graceful, bouyant, and powerful flight, with anterior toes more or ..."
4. Bulletin by United States National Museum (1901)
"the tail large and fan-shaped; young nidicolous. //. ... (or at least not strictly
nidicolous) and ... ca'ca nonfunctional: young nidicolous and ..."
5. Bulletin by United States National Museum, Smithsonian Institution (1901)
"... the tail large and fan-shaped; young nidicolous. ... (or at least not strictly
nidicolous) and ..."
6. The Outline of Science: A Plain Story Simply Told by John Arthur Thomson (1922)
"... and the nidicolous, terms which we may translate as nest-quitting and
nest-dwelling, though perhaps something of the distinction is conveyed in the two ..."
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