polygyny
puh li juh nee
- n having more than one wife at a time
- The cultural pattern found in so many tribal horticultural societies--including warfare, male domination and polygyny--began to take hold worldwide.
- That was the basis for outlawing Mormon polygyny and Pentecostal snake-handling.
- In the month-old autonomous state of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew's puritanical new administration, after banning pinball games and jukebox parlors, last week set out to end polygyny .