A songbird weaves me in a tree to keep her spring eggs safe, but wooden Matryoshka dolls use my action word to store smaller dolls inside bigger ones. What am I?
A nest
A bird lays eggs in a 'nest', while 'nesting' describes items that fit sequentially inside one another.
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