Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
adjective
- remaining in the nest for a period after hatching.
adjective
- (of young birds) remaining in the nest for some time after hatching
of birds, “bearing young which are helpless at birth,” 1920, from Modern Latin Nidicolae (1894), from Latin nidus (see nest (n.)) + colere “to inhabit” (see colony). Contrasted to nidifugous birds (1902), whose young are well-developed and leave the nest at birth (from Latin fugere “to flee”).