Nonmate

noun

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Noun
  1. 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."

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"However, after 40 min of submerged oviposition 50% of females were seized by nonmates because their mates had abandoned them."

Etymology

From non- + mate.

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