Bisexual vs Polygamy - What's the difference?
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(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.
A person who is bisexual. Someone who is attracted to people of two or more genders.
The having of multiple socially bonded sexual partners at the same time
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
* 2008 , Zeitzen, Miriam Koktvedgaard Polygamy: a cross-cultural analysis , p 3
(zoology) The state or habit of having more than one sexual mate.
(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.
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)- Midrash and Zohar present Adam as hermaphroditic or bisexual .
Hyponyms
* heteroflexibleSynonyms
* (sexually attracted to persons of either sex) (slang), ambidextrous (jocular), bi (colloquial) * perfect, hermaphrodite * See alsoCoordinate terms
*Noun
(en noun)- I have two family members who came out as bisexual ; my sister and my aunt.
Synonyms
* bi (colloquial) * See alsoHypernyms
*LGBTAlso see
* ----polygamy
English
Noun
(polygamies)- ''Originally polygamy could work either or both ways, but civilisation generally forbids simultaneous husbands
- Because Mormon polygamy was an unusual family form in nineteenth-century America
- Muslims and early Mormon communities have been known to practise polygamy .
- 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
- ''The Islamic form of polygamy is a husband with up to four wives