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- noun One with which a
nest is shared, such as a baby bird and its siblings or figuratively a child with children it is raised with.
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Examples
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Bryan, the Host's nestmate, held the bowl of infernal alcohol.
Touch of Evil 2006
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"My one-generation-older nestmate, D'Lerak, can calculate in four dimensions at once."
The Chaos Gate Lackey, Mercedes 1994
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"He loves you as if you were a nestmate, " she insisted.
The Black Gryphon Lackey, Mercedes 1994
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They sought out a hollow tree to winter in, and contrived to carry their wounded nestmate there; and, before the rigors of winter set in, they had stored up food enough to carry them through its severities.
The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians Henry Rowe Schoolcraft 1828
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A worker curls up into fetal pupal position, allowing a nestmate to pick her up by the mandibles and carry her about.
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Alex Wild none@example.com 2010
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A worker curls up into fetal pupal position, allowing a nestmate to pick her up by the mandibles and carry her about.
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Alex Wild none@example.com 2010
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So, by rubbing their mandibles onto the substrate, the workers probably spread a secretion from these glands that is involved in nestmate recruitment.
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The chemicals are used in other contexts as well, including nestmate recognition and sexual attraction.
Impact Lab 2009
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That treatment attracted nestmate aggression in colonies where a queen was present, they report.
Impact Lab 2009
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C. femoratus, or C. femoratus together with its heterospecific nestmate
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