nonreproductive

Examples

• All

• Such nonreproductive copulations may diminish hostility and help to establish and maintain intimacy between females and males.

  Academic text (1990)

• The different roles of the reproductive mother and her nonreproductive offspring are not genetically determined.

  Academic text (2008)

• According to Rubin, sexual relations are seen as bad when there are significant age gaps between partners and when the nature of the relation is nonreproductive, such as sex for pleasure alone.

  Academic text (2007)

• As reproductive activity ends each season, the glands regress; few are present during the nonreproductive season.

  Academic text (1993)

• It remains to be studied whether babysitting and mutual warming incur costs for the involved animals and whether nonreproductive individuals, which are often present in the colonies, participate in them.

  Academic text (2008)

• Eusociality, the care across generations of the offspring of a reproductive caste by a nonreproductive or less reproductive worker caste, is the most advanced level of social life in insects.

  Academic text (2008)

• In a honeybee colony, the nonreproductive workers help gather food and maintain the hive.

• During the winter, many animals enter a nonreproductive state, conserving energy until warmer months return.

Synonyms

I

infertile

vsnonreproductive

19 5.2

Not able to have babies or other young

also covers cases of not being involved in reproduction

S

sterile

vsnonreproductive

19 5.3

Unable to have babies or make seeds

adds the idea of not being involved in reproduction as well

N

nonprocreative

vsnonreproductive

8.5

Not able to have children or young

is identical in meaning but uses a different phrasing

U

unfertile

vsnonreproductive

• Archaic

6.4

Unable to have babies or make seeds

also applies when reproduction is not occurring rather than impossible

N

nonbreeding

vsnonreproductive

• Specialized

5.3

A period when animals do not have babies

includes inability to reproduce, not only temporary noninvolvement

Antonyms

R

reproductive

139 4.5

Relating to making new living things like babies or young animals

How Reproductive

prolific

7 6.0

fertile

24 2.8

infertile

19 5.2

nonreproductive

• Specialized

6.7

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology