Adjective:

बहुसहचर, बहुपत्‍नीक (विरल), बहुविवाही,

polygamous's Usage Examples:

polygamous marriage between partners, one or both of whom are domiciled in England, Wales or Northern Ireland is not valid.

When the male and female flowers of a species are found on separate plants, the term dioecious is applied, as in Mercurialis and hemp; and when a species has male, female and hermaphrodite flowers on the same or different plants, as in Parietaria, it is polygamous.

Moreover the Oriental character of this union, be its origin what it may, is visible from the fact that it was polygamous.

The males are polygamous, and during autumn and winter associate together, feeding in flocks apart from the females; but with the approach of spring they separate, each selecting a locality for itself, from which it drives off all intruders, and where morning and evening it seeks to attract the other sex by a display of its beautiful plumage, which at this season attains its greatest perfection, and by a peculiar cry, which Selby describes as "a crowing note, and another similar to the noise made by the whetting of a scythe."

It is polygamous, and the male performs the duty of incubation, brooding more than a score of eggs, the produce of several females - facts known to Nieremberg Rhea.

Statehood, therefore, was not granted until the 4th of January 1896, owing to the apparent hostility of the Mormon authorities to non-Mormon settlers and to repeated clashes between the Mormon Church and the United States government regarding extent of control, polygamous practices, 'c. And even after the admission of the state these questions arose in the matter of seating prominent Mormons who were elected to Congress.

Yet, apart from the references to cultic prostitution (which was adopted by the Israelites from the Canaanites), the mention of the vice in question is not frequent; in a polygamous society and in a country without great cities it was not likely to grow to great proportions.

A few species, as we have seen, are monoecious or dioecious, while many are polygamous (having unisexual as well as bisexual flowers as in many members of the tribes Andropogoneae, fig.

They are strong, active birds, and are believed to be polygamous.

That all this wonderful "show" is the consequence of the polygamous habit of the ruff can scarcely be doubted.

Synonyms:

polyoicous, monoecious, heteroicous, monecious, monoicous,

Antonyms:

monogynic, monandrous, monogynous, dioecian, dioecious,