nonvenereal en · ADJ
Etymology
From non- + venereal.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Not venereal.
Leaders of the new study said the most telling results were that the bacterium causing sexually transmitted syphilis arose relatively recently in humans and was closely related to a strain responsible for the nonvenereal infection known as yaws.
2008 January 15, John Noble Wilford, “Genetic Study Bolsters Columbus Link to Syphilis”, in New York Times: