(biology) A theory suggesting that women have evolved to pursuit a dual-mating strategy, by forming long-term pair-bonds with men who are good providers, while securing high quality genes for their offspring via extra-pair copulation when they are ovulating.

plural of plural wife

A co-wife in a polygamous marriage.

(South Africa, historical) apartheid

(grammar) A form of plural — typically used with a name, title or kinship term — which collectively refers to all those people associated with the referent (within the given frame of reference).

(grammar) Synonym of associative plural.

(grammar) A form of plural in which the referent is a collection of those items to which the stem itself refers (within a given frame of reference).

(grammar) A noun (either in certain of its senses or in all its senses) that does not generally have a singular form.

(grammar) A plurale tantum.

A form of polygamy formerly practiced by Mormons.