Nursers, -- a term applied to those birds whose young are hatched in a very immature and helpless condition, so as to require the care of their parents for some time
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a (of hatchlings) naked and blind and dependent on parents for food
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n (especially of domestic fowl) breeding to reveal differential sex characteristics at hatching
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It is used by some savages, particularly the natives of the South Sea Islands, for making axes or hatchets.
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The nest in which a bird lays eggs and hatches her young. n
