monogynous
Americanadjective
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Anthropology. having only one female sexual partner at a time.
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Zoology. (of a male animal) having only one female mate at a time.
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Entomology. (of social insects) having a single queen per colony.
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Botany. having one pistil.
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A flower with a simple pistil is monogynous; with two carpels, digynous; with three carpels, trigynous, &c.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
D'Asso, monogynous condition of the hawthorn in Spain, i.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) by Darwin, Charles
The systematic revival of Aryan polygamy has been a religious process; and the freest practitioners of sexual choice among reasoning unbelievers, the Russian Nihilists, have been notoriously monogynous.
From Rationalism by Robertson, J. M. (John Mackinnon)
D'ASSO, monogynous condition of the hawthorn in Spain.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 by Darwin, Charles
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