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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