polygyny 的定义
- the practice or condition of having more than one wife at one time.
- the habit or system of having two or more mates, either simultaneously or successively.
- the condition of having two or more functioning queens in a colony.
- Botany. the state or condition of having many pistils or styles.
polygyny 近义词
等同于 polygamy
更多polygyny例句
- It is everywhere set aside, to a greater or less extent, in favour of the two forms of polygamy—polygyny and polyandry.
- Hence the original form of polygamy was probably not polygyny—the only form, practically, that later occurs—but polyandry.
- Indeed, this is what has almost universally happened wherever pure polygyny prevails.
- In the northerly regions, where immigration and racial fusion have played a greater rle, both monogamy and polygyny may be found.
- The same is true of America and of Africa, monogamy decidedly predominating in the former and polygyny in the latter.