Significados de compose externally en inglés

The nest is composed externally of grass and mosses lined with soft bamboo-leaves.

I was not allowed to disturb the nest, which was composed externally of moss.

It (the nest) was composed externally of green moss and lined with fibres and dry bamboo-leaves.

The nest was of the usual type, a compactly-woven cup, composed externally of dry twigs, leaves, &c., the egg-cavity lined with fibres.

It is composed externally of moss and small roots and the down from the thistle; the egg-cavity is invariably sparingly lined with hair.

It was composed externally chiefly of moss, intermingled with dried leaves and fibres; the egg-cavity was warmly and thickly lined with a felt of pappus.