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Definition of Polygynous
1. Adjective. Having more than one wife at a time.
Definition of Polygynous
1. Adjective. (botany) Having many styles; belonging to the order Polygynia; polygynian. ¹
2. Adjective. Having more than one female as wife or mate; practicing polygyny. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Polygynous
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Polygynous
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Polygynous
Literary usage of Polygynous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wood's Illustrated Plant Record: With King's Check Tablets, for the Rapid ...by Alphonso Wood, Franklin Hiram King by Alphonso Wood, Franklin Hiram King (1877)
"polygynous ; with many (oo ) pistils. Simple ; consisting of but 1 carpel, 1
style, 1 stigma, 1 cell, 1 placenta. Compound ; composed of 2 or more carpels ..."
2. The Science of Ethics by Michael Cronin (1917)
"In a polygynous family, it will not be necessary to show, such love is wholly
impossible. In the polygynous union the wife cannot be loved as an equal, ..."
3. The New Church Law on Matrimony by Joseph Julius Charles Petrovits, Catholic Church (1919)
"A polygynous union does not interfere with the principal primary end of marriage,
and even the subordinate primary end, namely, the education of children, ..."
4. Sociology and Modern Social Problems by Charles Abram Ellwood (1919)
"This must necessarily be so, because in the polygynous family the care of the
children ... While we have no statistics of infant mortality from polygynous ..."
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