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Bisexual vs Polygamy - What's the difference?

bisexual | polygamy |

As nouns the difference between bisexual and polygamy

is that bisexual is bisexual while polygamy is the having of multiple socially bonded sexual partners at the same time.

bisexual

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (sexuality, of humans or other animals) Sexually attracted to members of two or more genders.
  • (botany) Of flowers: having both pollen and seeds.
  • (botany) Of sporophytes: having both male and female organs.
  • (botany) Of gametophytes: producing both eggs and sperm.
  • (botany) Of fungi: producing both the "female" ascogonium and the "male" antheridium.
  • (rare) Hermaphroditic.
  • Midrash and Zohar present Adam as hermaphroditic or bisexual .

    Hyponyms

    * heteroflexible

    Synonyms

    * (sexually attracted to persons of either sex) (slang), ambidextrous (jocular), bi (colloquial) * perfect, hermaphrodite * See also

    Coordinate terms

    *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who is bisexual. Someone who is attracted to people of two or more genders.
  • I have two family members who came out as bisexual ; my sister and my aunt.

    Synonyms

    * bi (colloquial) * See also

    Hypernyms

    *LGBT

    Also see

    * ----

    polygamy

    English

    Noun

    (polygamies)
  • The having of multiple socially bonded sexual partners at the same time
  • ''Originally polygamy could work either or both ways, but civilisation generally forbids simultaneous husbands
  • The condition of having more than one spouse or marriage partner at one time.
  • * 1991 , Kathryn M Daynes, Plural wives and the nineteenth-century Mormon marriage system , page 16
  • Because Mormon polygamy was an unusual family form in nineteenth-century America
  • * 2008 , Zeitzen, Miriam Koktvedgaard Polygamy: a cross-cultural analysis , p 3
  • Muslims and early Mormon communities have been known to practise polygamy .
  • (zoology) The state or habit of having more than one sexual mate.
  • An insect queen actually practices polygamy''' only one day, while for an alpha-male defending his harem is the very essence of both his status and ' polygamy
  • (botany) The condition or state of a plant which bears both perfect and unisexual flowers.
  • Commonly used specifically for polygyny, the marriage of a man to more than one wife, or the practice of having several wives, at the same time.
  • ''The Islamic form of polygamy is a husband with up to four wives

    Synonyms

    * (common restriction) polygyny

    Antonyms

    * monogamy * (common use) polyandry

    Hyponyms

    * polygyny * polyandry

    Derived terms

    * polygamist * polygamize

    See also

    * concubine * harem, seraglio