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polygamy (iou) and gaon (iou)


polygamy (iou)



polygamy noun. L16.
[French polygamie from late Latin polygamia from ecclesiastical Greek polugamia, from polugamos often married, polygamous, formed as POLY- + -GAMY.]
Marriage with several spouses, or more than one spouse, at once; the practice or custom by which one man has more than one wife, or one woman has more than one husband, at the same time. L16.
b. Zoology. The habit of mating with more than one, or several, of the opposite sex. E19.
Botany. The condition of being polygamous. rare. Only in L18.
polygamize verb intrans. (rare) practise polygamy L16.

gaon (iou)



gaon noun. . L18.
[Hebrew ga'on excellence, pride.]
(An honorific for) a head of a Jewish academy in Babylonia, Palestine, Syria, or Egypt, from the 6th to the 11th cents. Later, esp. in Spain, France, Italy, and Lithuania, an outstanding Talmudic scholar. Also gen., a genius, a prodigy.