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intranidal

intranidal adjective: within a nidus.

Adjective

intranidal (not comparable)

  1. Within a nidus
  2. Within a nest
    • Variation in caste ratio is associated with additional variation in mating behavior (mating flights vs. intranidal mating, i.e., mating in the nest) and the pattern of brood production [12 ].2015 July 30, “Multiple Convergent Origins of Workerlessness and Inbreeding in the Socially Parasitic Ant Genus Myrmoxenus”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of intranidal

From intra- + nidal.

Questions about intranidal

What does intranidal mean?
Intranidal means within a nidus.
What part of speech is intranidal?
Intranidal is an adjective.

Words near intranidal in the dictionary

  1. intraneurally
  2. intraneurite
  3. intraneuritic
  4. intraneuronal
  5. intraneuronally
  6. intranidal
  7. intranight
  8. intranigral
  9. intranigrally
  10. intranodal
  11. intranode

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