nongregarious

(ˌnɒnɡrɪˈɡɛərɪəs)

adj

(Biology) relating to plants or animals that do not grow or live in groups; solitary

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Adj.

nongregarious - of plants and animals; not growing or living in groups or colonies; "solitary bees"

nonsocial, solitary

ungregarious - (of animals) not gregarious

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2012 Parentage-based pedigree reconstruction reveals female matrilineal clusters and male-biased dispersal in nongregarious Asian great apes, the Bornean orang-utans (Pongo pygmaeus).

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[See Lewis's article on page 23.] We have a secure (and private) online listserv to which all members belong, but it is hardly a substitute for face-to-face conversation, especially when the actors involved are nongregarious animals, also known as investigative journalists.

Global efforts at investigative reporting: a Brazilian journalist explores the benefits of collaboration and describes how and why watchdog reporting has changed in Latin America

As already said, our simian ancestors were gregarious; it is obviously impossible to seek the derivation of man, the most social of all animals, from the nongregarious immediate ancestors.

The part played by labor in the transition from ape to man

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