S vs Polygamy - What's the difference?
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The nineteenth letter of the .
voiceless alveolar fricative
Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur
Symbols for SI units
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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 a letter s
is the letter s with a.As a noun polygamy is
the having of multiple socially bonded sexual partners at the same time.s
Translingual
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Symbol
(wikipedia) (mul-symbol)See also
(Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }}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