nonmate

noun

nonmate

noun

Etymology From non- + mate.

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:

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