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nongrooming

nongrooming adjective: not of or pertaining to grooming between animals.

Adjective

nongrooming (not comparable)

  1. Not of or pertaining to grooming between animals.
    • An increase in nongrooming contact, including sociosexual behavior, following both food provision and aggressive incidents unrelated to food.1990, Jay R. Feierman, Pedophilia: biosocial dimensions

Origin of nongrooming

From non- + grooming.

Questions about nongrooming

What does nongrooming mean?
Nongrooming means not of or pertaining to grooming between animals.
What part of speech is nongrooming?
Nongrooming is an adjective.

Words near nongrooming in the dictionary

  1. nongregariousness
  2. nongremial
  3. nongrey
  4. nongrilled
  5. nongrocery
  6. nongrooming
  7. nongrotesque
  8. nonground
  9. nongroup
  10. nongroupable
  11. nongroups

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