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Nidiculous. Refers to chicks that remain in the nest after hatching. Chicks that leave the nest shortly after hatching are referred to as nidifugous. This distinction is crucial when the chicks reach 18 years of age and ought to be off to university or perhaps to the Marines.
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these are both words that I have never heard, although OneLook has a different spelling for nidicolous. makes it not so ridiculous... <smile>
and the Online Etymology Dictionary doesn't have either word at all. what's the take on nidi?
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eta, so you want the nidi-gritty, eh?
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heh.
well, if I'd read one more tab on my browser, I would have seen that nidi=nidus=nest.
tweet.
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Latin nidi- (from nidus nest) + English -fugous (as in lucifugous) M-W
fugere means to flee, of course
colere, to inhabit (nidicolous is the correct spelling)
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so, a telescope would be lucicolous?
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... I got the whole thing from Johnnie Godwin on another thread.
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There is also cavernicolous (cave-dweller), from the Lat. "caverna", terricolous (living on the ground or in the soil) from the Lat. "terra" (soil or Earth), arenicolous (living in the sand), from Lat. "arena" (sand) and my personal favourite arboricolous (tree-dwelling).
-colous terms are often used in biology to describe the habitats where certain creatures can be found, or their living quarters: the most heat-resistant creature on earth is thought to be a tubicolous polychaete worm called "Pompeii worm" found in the deep-sea hydrothermal vents of the Pacific Ocean. It lives in a calcareous tube, hence the name.
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Marianna has just revealed to me that I am condominicolous.
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