bird's-nest soup

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noun

a Chinese soup made from the mucilaginous lining of the nests of the Asiatic swift.

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Origin of bird's-nest soup

First recorded in 1870–75

Words nearby bird's-nest soup

bird's mouth, bird's nest, bird's-nest fern, bird's-nest fungus, bird's-nest orchid, bird's-nest soup, Birds of a feather flock together, birdsong, bird spider, bird strike, bird table

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How to use bird's-nest soup in a sentence

It would be like if after the 40th pipe in Flappy Bird was a scarecrow.
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“A guy drives up in a 2008 Mercedes, brand new,” Harry S. Connelly Jr. says in the video, according to the Times.
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“Personal hotspots can get speeds of up to 60 Mb/s down, whereas hotel Wi-Fi can be as slow as 1.5 Mb/s,” Sesar said.
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There was also the grapefruit diet, the cabbage soup diet, and the cookie diet.
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In our headlong quest for a legally perfect society, we don’t take the time to take stock of what‘s been created so far.
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Fourteen genera, representing about 19 species, of Mallophaga are reported for 20 different species of bird hosts.
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A small book, bound in full purple calf, lay half hidden in a nest of fine tissue paper on the dressing-table.
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Almost as soon as she had finished building her nest she had discovered a strange-looking egg there.
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The grass had a delightful fragrance, like new-mown hay, and was neatly wound around the tunnel, like the inside of a bird's-nest.
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Many of his bird neighbors,p. 31 for instance, liked the same things to eat that he did.
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British Dictionary definitions for bird's-nest soup

bird's-nest soup

noun

a rich spicy Chinese soup made from the outer part of the nests of SE Asian swifts of the genus Collocalia

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