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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

nidamentum

materials for a nest, fr.

nidus

nest. See

(Zool.)

Of, pertaining to, or bearing, eggs or egg capsules;

as, the

nidamental

capsules of certain gastropods;

nidamental

glands

. See

Illust

. of

nidamental ‎(not comparable)

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