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extranidal

extranidal adjective: outside a nest.

Adjective

extranidal (not comparable)

  1. Outside a nest.
    • The first extranidal task, a foraging trip, is performed after the second or third orientation flight. The young worker may collect various types of loads, such as nest materials, food, and water […]1991, Kenneth G. Ross, Robert W. Matthews, The Social Biology of Wasps, page 247

Origin of extranidal

From extra- + nidal.

Questions about extranidal

What does extranidal mean?
Extranidal means outside a nest.
What part of speech is extranidal?
Extranidal is an adjective.

Words near extranidal in the dictionary

  1. extraneural
  2. extraneurally
  3. extraneurological
  4. extraneuronal
  5. extraneuronally
  6. extranidal
  7. extranigral
  8. extranodal
  9. extranodular
  10. extranoematic
  11. extranormal

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