Nonamniote

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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."

Example

More examples

"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."

Etymology

From non- + amniote.

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