Burrow vs Nidus - What's the difference?
burrow | nidus |
A tunnel or hole, often as dug by a small creature.
* 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
(mining) A heap or heaps of rubbish or refuse.
A mound.
An incorporated town.
(Webster 1913)
A nest for insects or small animals
A locus of infection in an organism
An originating point for a phenomenon
As nouns the difference between burrow and nidus
is that burrow is a tunnel or hole, often as dug by a small creature while nidus is a nest for insects or small animals.As a verb burrow
is to dig a tunnel or hole.burrow
English
Noun
(en noun)- But very soon he grew to like it, for the Boy used to talk to him, and made nice tunnels' for him under the bedclothes that he said were like the ' burrows the real rabbits lived in.
