NIDUS
- a nest or breeding place especially a place or substance in an animal or plant where bacteria or other organisms lodge and multiply.
- a breeding place [n NIDUSES or NIDI]
- nest, esp. one in which insects, spiders, etc., deposit their eggs
- place or point in an organism where a germ or other organism can develop or breed
- a nest or breeding place [n NIDI, NIDUSES]