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nonbreeding en · ADJ

Etymology

From non- + breeding.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not breeding.
    • A general increase in all classes of nonbreeding seals is perhaps the most obvious comparative result of the census. 1916, Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries, volume 34:
  2. (not-comparable) Not of or pertaining to breeding.
    • Adults can also be rather mobile during the nonbreeding period[…] 1997, Gary Ritchison, Northern cardinal, page 101: