Polygamous Definition

Polygamous Sentence Examples

• 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.

• 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.

• The Domestic Relations Bill recognizes that marriages in Uganda shall be either monogamous or polygamous bur does not outlaw polygamy.

• He adds that the parents, which " are mostly polygamous," attend their young and direct them where to find their food (p. 63).