polygynous

1. 1.

   having more than one wife at a time

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Questions about polygynous

What does polygynous mean?

polygynous means "having more than one wife at a time".

How many syllables are in polygynous?

polygynous has 4 syllables: po-lyg-y-nous. The stress falls on "lyg". In IPA it is /pəˈlɪdʒənəs/.

Is polygynous a common word?

polygynous 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.