Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Protective of eggs, embryos, or young; covering or containing such objects; secreting an egg-case or capsule: thus, a bird's nest is nidamental with respect to the eggs and young.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Of, pertaining to, or bearing, eggs or egg capsules. See
Illust . ofdibranchiata .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective anatomy Used to describe an
internal organ , in someelasmobranchs andmolluscs , thatsecretes egg cases or the gelatinous covering ofeggmass .
Etymologies
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Latin nidamentum, "materials for a nest".
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