Illustration: Under the sheltered eaves of a small Japanese bicycle shop, a swallow approaches a firmly attached mud nest with an insect in its beak. Three chicks stretch above the nest's rim, their mouths open so widely that their little heads seem mostly beak.

巣す

nest, hive

Example sentences

鳥とりは木きに巣すを作つくる。
Birds make their nests in trees.
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その鳥とりは巣すの中なかにいる。
The bird is in its nest.
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それを巣すに戻もどしなさい。
Put it back in the nest.
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Kanji in 巣

巣nest; rookeryOnソウKunす・すくう

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