nonvenereal
English
Etymology
non- + venereal
Adjective
nonvenereal (not comparable)
- Not venereal.
- 2008 January 15, John Noble Wilford, “Genetic Study Bolsters Columbus Link to Syphilis”, in New York Times:
- 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.
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