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Перевод: polygamous

[прилагательное]
многобрачный; полигамный; полигамический

Тезаурус:

1. The following are also void: marriages between parties who are not respectively male and female; marriages between persons, either of whom is under the age of 16 (see p. 43); and a polygamous marriage entered into outside England and Wales, if either party was at the time domiciled in England and Wales (for domicile, see pp. 61-;3).
2. The parallels between man and baboons include the following: a complex and structured group life, status hierarchies, the formation in some species of long-term polygamous bonds between males and females, the division of societies into reproductive groups and non-reproductive "surplus males", competition between males for access to females, collaboration between males in their various competitions, and in some cases intergenerational male collaboration in the maintenance of breeding units.
3. Indeed, in most examples, the emphasis has been on social systems in which males sporting the elaborate character are polygamous and have little to do with other aspects of reproduction.
4. In some polygamous species, such as the patas monkey, the males become henpecked.
5. They are polygamous, each male possessing any number of females.
6. It accepted that monogamy was inherent in Christianity and yet that there were polygamous societies where even the Church could not enforce the rule at once, and that the chief way forward lay in a progressive emancipation of women in those societies, especially in the sphere of education.
7. Next I began to worship actors like gods and I'd go and see the same performance again and again, transported, until I learned that the actor, the one I had in mind, was exceptionally polygamous and stingy as a goat and so I let that one go.
8. Many duck species are polygamous, with the drakes having no role in rearing the families.
9. However, some interesting experiments have been carried out with another polygamous bird, the long-tailed widow bird.
10. Sexual selection emphasizing attraction of the opposite sex is commonly recorded in relation to the elaborate displays of polygamous birds.
11. In polygamous monkeys each male has only a few females, but with species such as fur seals, the harems can be huge - up to one hundred females.
12. As in many other polygamous birds, the male plays no part in nesting and neither, in the case of these birds, does the female.
13. The larger species tend to reach sexual maturity later, and differences between the sexes are greatest in those species thought to be polygamous.