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. of dibranchiata.

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  • adjective anatomy Used to describe an internal organ, in some elasmobranchs and molluscs, that secretes egg cases or the gelatinous covering of eggmass.

Etymologies

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Latin nidamentum, "materials for a nest".

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