nonspecies
English
Etymology
non- + species
Noun
nonspecies (plural nonspecies)
- That which is not a species.
- 1981, Field & Stream (volume 86, number 5, page 107)
- Either the bird will be downgraded to "threatened" status — which means it can be hunted — or it will be declared a nonspecies, as has already happened to all its taxonomic kissing cousins.
- 1981, Field & Stream (volume 86, number 5, page 107)