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  • noun Plural form of nestmate.

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Examples

  • So far as these dragons were concerned, humans were fellow dragons, nestmates and parents, and the very little naughtiness they got into could readily be dealt with by a fist to the top of the nose.

    Aerie Lackey, Mercedes 2006

  • These monsters had been Oliver's nestmates, changed from their natures and ruined forever by an old and evil design.

    The Dragons of Krynn Weis, Margaret 1994

  • If a young bird failed to get the bite it wanted, it sometimes grabbed one of its nestmates by the bill, or the eye even, and tried to swallow it whole.

    Laddie: A True Blue Story 1913

  • If a young bird failed to get the bite it wanted, it sometimes grabbed one of its nestmates by the bill, or the eye even, and tried to swallow it whole.

    Laddie; a true blue story Gene Stratton-Porter 1893

  • But it appears that a few well-informed individuals shape group decisions by leading nestmates to new homes.

    Wired Top Stories Danielle Venton 2011

  • They were the two nestmates, who had just returned from the south after passing the winter there, and they were thus all happily reunited, and each one soon chose a mate and flew off to the woods.

    The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians Henry Rowe Schoolcraft 1828

  • If a colony gets hold of an old beetle burrow, the heavily armored majors will plug the entrance with their head shield and sit tight, budging only to let their nestmates pass.

    Neatorama Minnesotastan 2010

  • As endothermy means hard work for bees, this eases much burden of nestmates which can stay ectothermic.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2010

  • As endothermy means hard work for bees, this eases much burden of nestmates which can stay ectothermic.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2010

  • The latter are immediately seized by their extremities, and then spread-eagled; nestmates are recruited to help stretch, carve up and transport prey.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2010

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