| \NID-uh-fi-keyt\ | verb 1. to build a nest. | | Quotes | Many nidificate in holes of trees, or in the earth; the eggs are white and subspherical. -- Richard Owen, On the Anatomy of Vertebrates, Vol. II, 1866 | | Origin | | Nidificate entered English in the early 1800s from the Latin nīdificāre meaning "to build a nest." | |