Crossword-Solution: BIRDNEST 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

The woman had a baby at her breast, and the bottom of the buggy looked like a human birdnest, it was so full of young, tow-headed children.

Natalia would dance along beside him, flitting away now and then to inspect a hitherto undiscovered grapevine swing or a new birdnest, and then again walking slowly beside him, listening intently while he told her some wonderful story of bygone days.

And it is this nest, cleaned of all foreign matter which is the base of the much-esteemed delicacy known as birdnest soup.

The family of pigeons (_Columbidæ_) is abundantly represented in fourteen species, and doves form a common household bird; their eggs are regarded as proper food to prevent small-pox, and sold in the markets, being also cooked in birdnest and other kinds of soups.

When this happens the young birdnest ferns are often called “rock ferns.” The dark areas on the underside of the leaves in the illustration are spores.