different between nonmate vs nonmute

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non- +? mate

nonmate (plural nonmates)

An animal that is not a mate (of some other specified animal).
- 2001, Leigh W. Simmons, Sperm competition and its evolutionary consequences in the insects (page 169)
  However, after 40 min of submerged oviposition 50% of females were seized by nonmates because their mates had abandoned them.

non- +? mute

nonmute (not comparable)

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