monogamic, a.
(mɒnəʊˈgæmɪk)
[f. Gr. µονόγαµ-ος (see monogamous) + -ic. So F. monogamique.]
1. Of or pertaining to monogamy; (less correctly) practising monogamy, monogamous.
| 1840 Fraser's Mag. XXI. 391 All trace of the monogamic pillar of orthodoxy therefore disappears. 1860 J. M. Ludlow in Macm. Mag. II. 46 If M. Michelet has satisfied himself by means of physiology that man is a monogamic animal, so much the better. 1876 in Ruskin Fors Clav. VI. 376 A Home should minister to all the needs of its members. This, ordinary monogamic homes cannot do. 1882–3 Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. III. 2549/1 The institution of monogamic marriage in Genesis. |
2. Bot. = monogamous a. 3.
| 1856 Mayne Expos. Lex., Monogamicus, Monogamus. The latter of these two terms is applied by H. Cassini to the calathidia of the Synanthereæ when they contain flowers which are of the same sex, as in the Lactuca: monogamic: monogamous. 1866 Treas. Bot., Monogamia (adj. Monogamic), having flowers distinct from each other, and not collected in a capitulum. |
Hence monoˈgamically adv., in a monogamic manner.
| 1911 G. B. Shaw Getting Married 140 In our population there are about a million monogamically superfluous women. |