Crossword-Solution: NIDUS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Nidus | n. | A nest: a repository for the eggs of birds, insects, etc.; a breeding place; esp., the place or substance where parasites or the germs of a disease effect lodgment or are developed. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| NIDUS | anagram | DINUS, INDUS |
We have 20 clues for the answer “NIDUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| DEVELOPMENT of disease, place of | 1 answer |
| Spider's nest | 1 answer |
| Spider nest | 1 answer |
| PLACE in which spores develop | 1 answer |
| PLACE in which seeds develop | 1 answer |
| PLACE in which insect deposits eggs | 1 answer |
| ORIGIN of disease, place of | 1 answer |
| Nest, scientifically | 1 answer |
| NATURAL receptacle | 1 answer |
| DISEASE development, place of | 1 answer |
| Breeding place of bacteria | 1 answer |
| A nest in which spiders or insects deposit their eggs | 1 answer |
| A breeding place. | 1 answer |
| Insect nest | 2 answers |
| Hornet's nest | 2 answers |
| Place of origin | 6 answers |
| Depository | 15 answers |
| BREEDING place | 21 answers |
| Receptacle | 36 answers |
| Nest | 42 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with NIDUS (5)
There was one Asplenium nidus [bird's nest fern] which had thirty-seven perfect fronds radiating from a centre, each frond from three and a quarter to five and a half feet long, and varying from myrtle to the freshest tint of pea-green! There was an orchid with hardly visible leaves, which bore six crowded clusters of flowers close to the branch of the tree on which it grew; each cluster composed of a number of spikes of red coral tipped with pale green.
The conditions, then, which appear to prevent fecundation are: First, the absence of the proper nidus for the ovum; second, the obstruction of the cervical canal by a mucus plug; third, increased alkalinity of the cervical secretion, often accompanied by the increased acidity of the vaginal secretion.
Any mode of life in London, or not in London, which trains the nerves to a state of permanent irritation, prepares a _nidus_ for disease; and unhappily not for chronic disease only, but for disease of that kind which finishes the struggle almost before it is begun.
Now, this cause of war could and would be healed by a congress, and through an easy reform in European diplomacy.[Footnote: One great _nidus_ of this insidious preparation for war under the very masque of peace, which Kant, from brevity, has failed to particularize, lies in the neglecting to make any provision for cases that are likely enough to arise.
Certain seeds which are required to find a nidus for themselves under unfavourable circumstances have been supplied by nature with an apparatus of hooks, so that they will get a hold on very unreceptive surfaces.
Quotes with NIDUS (1)
I have read in some of the old histories that in early times the Greeks did not know how to write until two men, one of whom was called Cadmus (Qatmus) and the other Aghanūn, came from Egypt bringing sixteen letters with which the Greeks wrote. Then one of these two men derived four other letters, also used for writing. Later, another man named Simonides (Simūnidus) derived four additional ones, making twenty-four. It was in those days that Socrates (Suqrātīs) appeared
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Appears in: Crossroads, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1954–2002).