polygynia

pl. [Gr. polygynaios having many wives: polys =many, and gyne a woman.] Anat.: An order in Linnæus' artificial cla ification, containing plants with many pistils. pol-ý-gyn-i-an, adj. [POLYGYNIA.] Having many pistils; pertaining or belonging to the order Polygynia. †põl-ý-gyn-Ic, a. [Eng. polygyn(y); -ic.] Pertaining to or practicing polygyny. "The polygynic arrangement, as it decayed, continued longest in connection with the governing organization." -Spencer: Sociology (ed. 1885), i. 665.