nidus
Americannoun
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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
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of nidus
1735–45; < Latin nīdus nest
Example Sentences
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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
Relationship of Tuberculosis to Trauma.—Any tissue whose vitality has been lowered by injury or disease furnishes a favourable nidus for the lodgment and growth of tubercle bacilli.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis
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 Gratacap, L. P.
These structural peculiarities of the testa in different plants have relation to the scattering of the seed and its germination upon a suitable nidus.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
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