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- Latin · derived fromnidamentum“materials for a nest”
- English todaynidamental
From Latin nidamentum (“materials for a nest”) + -al.
Words from the same roots
Latinnidamentum all →
nidamentum
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
nidamental
Today it means: Used to describe an internal organ, in some elasmobranchs and molluscs, that secretes egg cases or the gelatinous covering of eggmass. Full definition →
Latin nidamentum