Usually means: Leaves nest shortly after hatching.
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  1. nidifugous: Merriam-Webster
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  3. nidifugous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  8. nidifugous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  14. nidifugous: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
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  1. nidifugous: Medical dictionary

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  1. nidifugous: A Word A Day

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Definitions from Wiktionary (nidifugous)

▸ adjective:  (biology, ornithology) That leaves the nest shortly after hatching.

Similar:
passage, nidulant, avicolous, gymnopaedic, juvenal, ornithophagous, avianlike, ayrant, semiprecocial, ornithophilic, more...

Opposite:
nidicolous, altricial

Types:
precocial, altricial, more...

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Similar:
passage, nidulant, avicolous, gymnopaedic, juvenal, ornithophagous, avianlike, ayrant, semiprecocial, ornithophilic, more...

Opposite:
nidicolous, altricial

Types:
precocial, altricial, more...



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