Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not growing or living in groups or colonies; -- of plants and animals.
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- adjective zoology Not
gregarious ;solitary . Compareungregarious .
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- adjective of plants and animals; not growing or living in groups or colonies
Etymologies
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non- + gregarious
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