nidus noun. ['nʌɪdǝs] Pl. nidi ['nʌɪdʌɪ], niduses. E18.
[Latin = nest.]
1. a. Medicine. A place in which bacteria or other pathogens have multiplied; a focus of infection. E18.
b. Zoology. A nest or place in which a small animal, as an insect, snail, etc., lives or deposits its eggs. M18.
c. Botany. A place or substance in which spores or seeds develop. L18.

2. A place in which something is formed, deposited, settled, or located; a site of origin. L18.

3. fig. A source, an origin; a place where some quality or principle is fostered. E19.

4. A collection of eggs, tubercles, etc. rare. E19.

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