nidulation en · NOUN
Meanings
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(uncountable) The time of remaining in the nest, or the nest-building.
in the time of their [the birds'] nidulation and bringing forth their young
1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC: