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Polygamous   /pəlˈɪgəməs/   Listen
Polygamous

adjective
1.
Having more than one mate at a time; used of relationships and individuals.
2.
Having several forms of gametoecia on the same plant.  Synonyms: heteroicous, polyoicous.





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"Polygamous" Quotes from Famous Books



... females, the number of females in proportion to the rest of the males will be reduced. Since it is almost always the males that are the wooers, we must expect to find the occurrence of secondary sexual characters chiefly among them, and to find it especially frequent in polygamous species. And ...
— Darwin and Modern Science • A.C. Seward and Others
... about the 6th day of October, 1890, the Church of the Latter-day Saints, commonly known as the Mormon Church, through its president issued a manifesto proclaiming the purpose of said church no longer to sanction the practice of polygamous marriages and calling upon all members and adherents of said church to obey the laws of the United States in reference to ...
— Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Volume 8, Section 2 (of 2): Grover Cleveland • Grover Cleveland
... has never developed the morals and inhibitions which your people find so necessary. We are polygamous, and not apt to be jealous. She offers to give you to me as a royal husband in return for the privilege of being your slave, your housekeeper, your body-servant as it were. ...
— Valley of the Croen • Lee Tarbell
... land where adopted sons are practically equivalent to lineal descendants (another instance of the "yumei-mujitsu" type of thought), and where marriage is essentially polygamous, and where the "yumei-mujitsu" spirit has allowed the sovereignty to be usurped in fact, though it may not be in name, it is not at all wonderful that the nation can boast of a longer line of Emperors ...
— Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic • Sidney L. Gulick


Words linked to "Polygamous" :   polyoicous, monecious, monoicous, polygamy, monoecious, polyandrous, bigamous, monogamous, polygynous


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