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nonamniote

nonamniote noun: an organism that is not an amniote.

Noun

nonamniote (plural nonamniotes)

  1. An organism that is not an amniote.
    • If homologous sequences and transcription evidence could be found across all amniotes, but not in the nonamniote species, then the age of the locus was set as the approximate age of the amniote lineage.2015 August 12, R. Axel W. Wiberg et al., “Assessing Recent Selection and Functionality at Long Noncoding RNA Loci in the Mouse Genome”, in Genome Biology and Evolution, volume 7, →DOI

Forms of nonamniote

pluralnonamniotes

Origin of nonamniote

From non- + amniote.

Questions about nonamniote

What does nonamniote mean?
Nonamniote means an organism that is not an amniote.
What part of speech is nonamniote?
Nonamniote is a noun.
What is the plural of nonamniote?
The plural of nonamniote is nonamniotes.

Words near nonamniote in the dictionary

  1. nonaminoacylated
  2. nonammoniacal
  3. nonamnesic
  4. nonamnesics
  5. nonamnestic
  6. nonamniote
  7. nonamniotes
  8. nonamoeboid
  9. nonamorous
  10. nonamortising
  11. nonamortizable

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