Meanings
comparative more nonakin · superlative most nonakin
- Not akin; dissimilar.
[…] nonakin breeding stock should be substituted for the home stock.
1919, The Breeder's Gazette, page 12952 more examples
Parenthetically, it may also be pointed out that linguistic competence in a foreign culture goes hand in hand with another essential— a spirit of adventure, of near-romantic interest unknown or nonakin cultural styles and ways of life.
1973, Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, page 226If one admits the possibility of two akin or one nonakin substitution of nucleotides (see above) in each pair of key words (of which one corresponds to the "-10" box and the other to the "-35" box), then, […]
1989, A. V. Lukashin, V. V. Anshelevich, B. R. Amirikyan, A. I. Gragerov, M. D. Frank-Kamenetskii, “Neural network models for promoter recognition”, in Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics Recognition, volume 6, number 6
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