Noun: nonself
| Singular | nonself |
| Plural | nonselfs; nonselves |
Sample Sentences
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In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual. [2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:]
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In his classic monograph describing the clonal selection theory of the immune response, Burnet (1959) suggested that the immune system distinguishes between self (no antibody response) and nonself (antibody response). [1961, George F. Vande Woude, George Klein, Advances in Cancer Research:]
Nouns inflected like nonself
pyramid roof,
neckkerchief,
neck kerchief,
waterleaf,
yellow dwarf,
hipped roof,
silverleaf,
cloverleaf,
baby beef,
nonself,
headkerchief,
longleaf,
peaked roof,
neckerchief,
semidwarf,
newhalf,
non-self,
handkerchief,
pockethandkerchief,
autumn leaf, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From non- + self.