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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A nest or brood of pheasants.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A nest; a nestful; a clutch or brood: as, a nide of pheasants.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A nestful; a brood.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun a nest of pheasants

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin nīdus, nest; see sed- in Indo-European roots.]

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