future mate
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This dim Belgian animated movie centres on Sammy, a sea turtle, his best friend, Ray, and his future mate, Shelly.
From The Guardian • Mar. 27, 2011
That’s why Saturday’s Weird Animal Question of the Week is taking the author’s prerogative to ask: "Could your pet decide your future mate?"
From National Geographic
He had been bought as the future mate for Mandjullah, an older female.
From Time Magazine Archive
Smerdis, the grand chinchilla male brought over as a future mate for Atossa, is a royal cat.
From Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others by Winslow, Helen M.
And while the others played, Mac lay staring at the window curtain as contentedly as if, through it, he beheld "a dream of fair women" from which to choose his future mate.
From Rose in Bloom by Alcott, Louisa May
