Meaning & use
polygynous
Describing a mating or marriage system in which one male has multiple female partners.
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Lions live in polygynous prides where one male mates with several females.
Anthropologists studied a polygynous society in which wealthy men often had more than one wife.
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Polygynous is used in both biology, describing animal mating systems, and anthropology, describing human marriage customs.
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