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polygamous ADJ

polygamous

be or become polygamous VB

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He grew up in a polygamous home of five wives and nine children.
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Often, cryptic female choice occurs in polyandrous or polygamous species.
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The males are polygamous and do not take part in raising the young.
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Grant is not the least bit ashamed of being polygamous and appears on television defending his lifestyle and his sect.
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The territory did not recognize interracial or polygamous marriages as legal.
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One third of married women in the age group 15-49, are in polygamous marriages.
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Families were usually polygamous, with the first wife accorded a special status among her co-wives.
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It is polygamous and has a high reproductive rate, which is one of the main reasons for its survival.
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This favoured polygamous marriages in which men sought to monopolize the production of women who are valued both as workers and as child bearers.
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Provisions were instituted to allow for existing polygamous families immigrating from countries where the practice was legal.
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