nidulant
English edit
Etymology edit
Latin nidulans, p.pr.: compare French nidulant.
Adjective edit
nidulant (not comparable)
- Nestling, as a bird in its nest.
- (botany) Lying loose in pulp or cotton within a berry or pericarp.
- nidulant seeds
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “nidulant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)