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