bird's-nest

This variety, called the bird's-nest orchid, lives off the nutrients it receives from a symbiotic fungus.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com James Gerken 2012

It even includes more esoteric bar items like a bird's-nest double strainer used to remove small shards of ice from a shaken drink to keep the cocktail from getting too diluted and an ice pick, should you be interested in mastering the art of carving huge globes of ice for your Scotch.

Have Bar Gear, Will Travel 2011

Whether you liked it or not, Nicki Minaj's Grammys outfit was memorable — leopard print, bird's-nest hair and all.

VIDEO: Where Did Nicki Minaj Find Her Head-Turning Grammys Outfit? 2011

They have some of the most intriguing names of all the wild flowers, such as butterfly orchid, frog orchid and bird's-nest orchid.

Country diary: Ardersier 2011

The frog orchid also gets its name from the shape of its flowers while the bird's-nest orchid is so-called because of the way that its root system resembles the nest of a wood pigeon.

Country diary: Ardersier 2011

For instance, it means something if you're alone and order bird's-nest soup and the waiter smiles and says, “Good for you.”

Read Chinese 2010

This mythic rustic food is presented as a single gobbet of flesh with a matchstick of bone sticking up as a handle -- letting you pop the thing, with its crisp, bird's-nest coating, into your mouth, but only after you've dredged it through teardrops of garlic cream and parsley purée.

Watching Robuchon Invent 2009

The first green plant, a bird's-nest fern, is taller than I am.

If you are cold and wintery... Glenda Larke 2009

In 1999 Gray started receiving death threats from local ruffians demanding kickbacks for the bird's-nest collectors.

Trouble In Paradise 2008

Her blonde hair was a bird's-nest of curls, and she was as utterly oblivious to her surroundings as ever she was when similarly bent over one of her Hebrew texts.

Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005