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nonmates

nonmates is the plural of nonmate.

Meaning of nonmate

Noun

nonmate (plural nonmates)

  1. An animal that is not a mate (of some other specified animal).
    • However, after 40 min of submerged oviposition 50% of females were seized by nonmates because their mates had abandoned them.2001, Leigh W. Simmons, Sperm competition and its evolutionary consequences in the insects, page 169

Questions about nonmates

What is nonmates the plural of?
Nonmates is the plural of nonmate.

Words near nonmates in the dictionary

  1. nonmateriality
  2. nonmaterially
  3. nonmaternal
  4. nonmaternally
  5. nonmaternity
  6. nonmates
  7. nonmath
  8. nonmathematical
  9. nonmathematically
  10. nonmathematician
  11. nonmathematicians

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