nonbreeding

nonbreeding

English

Etymology

non- +‎ breeding

Adjective

nonbreeding (not comparable)

1. Not breeding.
   • 1916, Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries (volume 34)

     A general increase in all classes of nonbreeding seals is perhaps the most obvious comparative result of the census.

2. Not of or pertaining to breeding.
   • 1997, Gary Ritchison, Northern cardinal (page 101)

     Adults can also be rather mobile during the nonbreeding period […]