Definitions
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- n. One with which a nest is shared, such as a baby bird and its siblings or figuratively a child with children it is raised with.
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Examples
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Bryan, the Host's nestmate, held the bowl of infernal alcohol.
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"My one-generation-older nestmate, D'Lerak, can calculate in four dimensions at once."
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"He loves you as if you were a nestmate, " she insisted.
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They sought out a hollow tree to winter in, and contrived to carry their wounded nestmate there; and, before the rigors of winter set in, they had stored up food enough to carry them through its severities.
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A worker curls up into fetal pupal position, allowing a nestmate to pick her up by the mandibles and carry her about.
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So, by rubbing their mandibles onto the substrate, the workers probably spread a secretion from these glands that is involved in nestmate recruitment.
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The chemicals are used in other contexts as well, including nestmate recognition and sexual attraction.
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That treatment attracted nestmate aggression in colonies where a queen was present, they report.
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C. femoratus, or C. femoratus together with its heterospecific nestmate
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This is an Argentine ant worker carrying a dead nestmate (necrophoresis).
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