nidamental

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

nidamental

Etymology

From Latin nidamentum (“materials for a nest”) + -al.

Related words

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