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单词 polygyny
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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
po•lyg•y•ny  (pə lij′ə nē),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. Anthropologythe practice or condition of having more than one wife at one time.
  2. Zoology(among male animals) the habit or system of having two or more mates, either simultaneously or successively.
  3. Insects(among social insects) the condition of having two or more functioning queens in a colony.
  4. Botanythe state or condition of having many pistils or styles. Cf. monogyny. 
  • Greek polygýn(aios) having many wives (see poly-, gyn-) + -y3
  • 1770–80

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
polygyny /pəˈlɪdʒɪnɪ/ n
  1. the practice or condition of being married to more than one wife at the same time
  2. the practice in animals of a male mating with more than one female during one breeding season
  3. the condition in flowers of having many carpels
Etymology: 18th Century: from poly- + -gyny, from Greek gunē a woman

poˈlygynous adj
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