Definition of "nestmates" [nestmates]

• Plural form of nestmate. (noun)

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• "So far as these dragons were concerned, humans were fellow dragons, nestmates and parents, and the very little naughtiness they got into could readily be dealt with by a fist to the top of the nose."
• "These monsters had been Oliver's nestmates, changed from their natures and ruined forever by an old and evil design."
• "If a young bird failed to get the bite it wanted, it sometimes grabbed one of its nestmates by the bill, or the eye even, and tried to swallow it whole."