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A nest in which spiders or insects deposit their eggs
Answer for the clue "A nest in which spiders or insects deposit their eggs ", 5 letters:
nidus
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Word definitions for nidus in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"nest, breeding place," 1742, from Latin nidus "a nest," from Old Latin *nizdus (see nest (n.)). Figurative use by 1807. Classical plural is nidi .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nidus \Ni"dus\, n.; pl. nidi . [L. See Nidi , Nest .] A nest: a repository for the eggs of birds, insects, etc.; a breeding place; esp., the place or substance where parasites or the germs of a disease effect lodgment or are developed.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a central point or locus of an infection in an organism; "the focus of infection" [syn: focus , focal point ] a nest in which spiders or insects deposit their eggs [also: nidi (pl)]
Usage examples of nidus.
All in relatively young women, and all without any apparent nidus of infection elsewhere, particularly nothing in the lungs.
Den, hive, nest, nidus, eyrie, newlywed starter home: they build themselves a pallet on the floor.
The Council was struggling to prevent the PRA from becoming a political group with sufficient power to win a majority in the Council and declare war on Nidus, and to date it had managed the feat.
But in the tenement houses and on the made lands where running streams have been filled in and natural springs choked up by earth fillings, diphtheria finds a nidus in which to develop itself.
Practically, if you reopen a drain well laid with pipes and collars, you will find them reposing in a beautiful nidus, which, when they are carefully removed, looks exactly as if it had been moulded for them.
And yet East Borders itself was a simple motte and bailey that looked modest, almost meager compared to the lofty battlements and the four towers of Castle Nidus.
And the three of them straggled over the rocky road to Nidus into a new blizzard.