Word.ws English Dictionary

nidamental

nidamental adjective: used to describe an internal organ, in some elasmobranchs and molluscs, that secretes egg cases or the gelatinous covering of eggmass.

Adjective

nidamental (not comparable)

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

Origin of nidamental

From Latin nidamentum (“materials for a nest”) + -al.

Questions about nidamental

What does nidamental mean?
Nidamental means used to describe an internal organ, in some elasmobranchs and molluscs, that secretes egg cases or the gelatinous covering of eggmass.
What part of speech is nidamental?
Nidamental is an adjective.

Words near nidamental in the dictionary

  1. NIDA
  2. nidah
  3. nidal
  4. nidality
  5. nidamenta
  6. nidamental
  7. nidamentum
  8. nidana
  9. nidanas
  10. Nidas
  11. nidate

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: nidamental (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “nidamental.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/nidamental. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.