drey
- noun
- /dreɪ/
- During the winter, the mother squirrel stayed in her drey to keep her babies warm and safe.
Examples
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The Elven Vanguard assembled, packed up, and moved back into the heavy trees within Drey Wood, there to wait for the storm to pass.
Fiction book (1993) -
And as a group... or, as they call it in the animal kingdom, a drey of squirrels... that means they owe $2,596,000, and are facing at least five years in prison.
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Northern flying squirrels in boreal or younger forests often use dreys because trees are too small to have cavities large enough to allow communal denning during winter (Smith 2007).
Academic text (2012) -
The squirrel built a cozy drey high up in the tree to protect its young from predators.
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While searching for food, I spotted a drey nestled among the branches of the oak tree.
Synonyms
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A place birds or animals make to lay eggs and raise their young
Surface Forms
Etymology
Drey probably comes from an old German word like dreye that meant 'nest' or 'shelter' for animals. So a drey today is the small nest a squirrel builds of twigs and leaves high in a tree.