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Meanings of nongregarious in English

Of plants and animals; not growing or living in groups or colonies.

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        Examples for "solitary"
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        A new solitary writing technique helped hammer home the new Nails sound.
        The Guardian
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        He was in solitary confinement when the so-called Great Escape took place.
        BBC
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        In contrast, members of most solitary territorial animal species cannot be herded.
        Guns, germs, and steel: the fates of human societies
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        Work consists of a solitary press conference on a plush Italian beano.
        The Irish Times
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        After a few months, in late 1996, he received a solitary reply.
        Wired
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        During both scanning sessions, participants completed social and nonsocial incentive delay tasks.
        Pubmed
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        In both studies, size comparisons served as a nonsocial control condition.
        Pubmed
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        These results provide evidence for overlapping processes in the comparison of physical attractiveness and nonsocial magnitudes.
        Pubmed
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        In addition, nonsocial cues (car) did not elicit this effect.
        Pubmed
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        First, we demonstrate that the distance effect characteristic of nonsocial comparisons also holds for attractiveness comparisons.
        Pubmed
        Usage of nongregarious in English
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        A widower at fifty-two, childless, nongregarious, he seemed as unattached to ordinary passions as to his office.
        The guns of august
        Nongregarious through the time