nonmate
English
Etymology
Noun
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.
- 2001, Leigh W. Simmons, Sperm competition and its evolutionary consequences in the insects (page 169)