Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

   3. (Bot.) An orchideous plant with matted roots, of the genus
      {Neottia} ({N. nidus-avis.})

   {Bird's-nest pudding}, a pudding containing apples whose
      cores have been replaced by sugar.

   {Yellow bird's nest}, a plant, the {Monotropa hypopitys}.