monogynous

1. 1.

   having one head or chief wife at a time (along with concubines)

   Synonymsmonogynic

   Similarmonogamous

Questions about monogynous

What does monogynous mean?

monogynous means "having one head or chief wife at a time (along with concubines)".

How many syllables are in monogynous?

monogynous has 4 syllables: mo-no-gy-nous. The stress falls on "no".

What is another word for monogynous?

Close synonyms include monogynic. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is monogynous a common word?

monogynous is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.