Usually means: One male mates with one female.
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  1. monogyny: Merriam-Webster
  2. monogyny: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. monogyny: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. monogyny: Collins English Dictionary
  5. monogyny: Vocabulary.com
  6. monogyny: Wordnik
  7. monogyny: Wiktionary
  8. monogyny: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. monogyny: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Monogyny, monogyny: Dictionary.com
  11. Monogyny: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. monogyny: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. monogyny: Rhymezone
  14. Monogyny: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. monogyny: FreeDictionary.org
  16. monogyny: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. monogyny: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. monogyny: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (monogyny)

▸ noun:  The practice of having one wife at a time.
▸ noun:  The condition in ants of having only one queen at a time.

Similar:
monogamousness, monogamy, monoandry, monandry, supermonogamy, polygyny, polygamy, polyandry, monoamory, bigyny, more...

Opposite:
polygyny, polygamy, polyandry

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Similar:
monogamousness, monogamy, monoandry, monandry, supermonogamy, polygyny, polygamy, polyandry, monoamory, bigyny, more...

Opposite:
polygyny, polygamy, polyandry



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