nidus
Americannoun
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nidi
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a nest, especially one in which insects, spiders, etc., deposit their eggs.
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a place or point in an organism where a germ or other organism can develop or breed.
noun
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the nest in which insects or spiders deposit their eggs
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pathol a focus of infection
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a cavity in which plant spores develop
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Origin of nidus
1735–45; < Latin nīdus nest
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Among them, occasionally, an underlying structural abnormality in the brain can be the nidus for electrical disarray.
From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 2019
The S.D.P., however, had the advantage of being able to coalesce around the nidus of a small, old, still breathing third party, the Liberals.
From Time Magazine Archive
It will not be difficult to induce me to give up the theory of the growth of shells, without their being the nidus of animals.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
There has been, may we not think, constant interchanges between these planets of such lives as survive material dissolution, and they have found the nidus that fits them in each.
From The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars by L. P. Gratacap
Certain seeds which are required to find a nidus for themselves under unfavorable circumstances have been supplied by nature with an apparatus of hooks, so that they will get a hold on very unreceptive surfaces.
From The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
These appearances consisted of long tubes passing nearly perpendicularly through the clay and terminating in receptacles or nidi, each tube leading to a separate receptacle.
From Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology by Various
We could fill a page with marvellous shots quos nidi et quorum pars, etc.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 by Various
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