What is "monogamous"

Usage examples of "monogamous".

Unlike the latter species, the bonobo had not been partially monogamous with polygamous and polyandrous tendencies.

In Tibet one finds polygamy and polyandry, but most people are monogamous.

Most flycatcher males are nominally monogamous, but many try to be polygynous, and quite a few succeed.

By subordinating the obligation to procreate, rejecting divorce, and implicitly sanctioning monogamous relationships, Jesus reverses traditional priorities, declaring, in effect, that other obligations, including marital ones, are now more important than procreation.

The Eternal Romance But whatever the future of monogamous marriage, there will never be any decay of that agreeable adventurousness which now lies at the bottom of all transactions between the sexes.

And since we had a standard monogamous contract, your affair with my ex-employee Vicky constitutes a major breach of contract and therefor you forfeit everything.

And, in spite of the fantastic surface sociological differences, each made the family unit a basic one, each was monogamous, each entertained the concept of a single deity, and each had very sensitive personal feelings.

Kept up a friendly relationship with her mother and sister, had several pals, and from the conversations on the 'link had a monogamous romantic relationship with a man named Lucas.

The result is our human social system of nominally monogamous married couples, or occasionally of harems of women committed to one affluent man.

Whereas Kate Mayfield didn't mind a few weeks overlap in regard to sexual involvements, I'm basically monogamous, preferring one headache at a time—except for a weekend in Atlantic City with these two sisters, but that's another story.

He issued a law that in remembrance of her patriotic deed his followers should be allowed only monogamous marriages with Kuba girls.

Wait until the next time that you are having sex for fun, at a nonfertile time of the ovulatory cycle, while enjoying the security of a lasting monogamous relationship.

I've had several thousand wives, but always one at a time, for I was born in a monogamous era and the habit has persisted.

Not a single monogamous primate species has boldly advertised ovulations, which instead are usually (in fourteen out of eighteen cases) confined to promiscuous species.

When there's less food in the tallgrass prairie where the voles live, they tend to be monogamous, an intimate cooperation that keeps the male from having to hunt for females, and insures that offspring will survive better because both parents feed them.