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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

nidulans

, p. pr.: cf. F.

Nestling, as a bird in its nest.

(Bot.)

Lying loose in pulp or cotton within a berry or pericarp, as in a nest.

Adj.

[L. Nest.] In botany, nestling; lying loose in pulp or cotton, within a berry or pericarp.