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"One wife at a time" practice
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monogyny
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The practice of having one wife at the same time. 2 The condition in ants of having only one queen at a time.
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Monogyny is a specialised mating system in which a male can only mate with one female throughout his lifetime but the female may mate with more than one male. In this system the males generally provide no paternal care. In many spider species that are monogynous, ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Monogyny \Mo*nog"y*ny\, n. [See Monogynia .] Marriage with the one woman only. (Bot.) The state or condition of being monogynous.
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n. having only one wife at a time
Usage examples of monogyny.
It was already known that bees could die from too much stress, and now some claimed that the extensive patrolling of the invaders, the disappearance of monogyny - rule by a single queen - from the mass swarms, or the difficulty of preparing for winter at such a late date had made the bees functionally neurotic and suicidal.