Nonmate vs Nonmale - What's the difference?
nonmate | nonmale |
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)
Not male.
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As nouns the difference between nonmate and nonmale
is that nonmate is an animal that is not a mate (of some other specified animal) while nonmale is one who is not male.As an adjective nonmale is
not male.nonmate
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Noun
(en noun)- However, after 40 min of submerged oviposition 50% of females were seized by nonmates because their mates had abandoned them.
nonmale
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Adjective
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