(n.) The apartments or portion of the house allotted to females in Mohammedan families.
(n.) The family of wives and concubines belonging to one man, in Mohammedan countries; a seraglio.
Example Sentences:
(1) • +30 22740 22045 Don’t miss Chios made its fortune from the harvesting of mastic, a tree resin once chewed in the harems of Ottoman Istanbul.
(2) Harem formation concurrent with mating has been observed, and the bond between the mother and her young extends beyond extends beyond nursing.
(3) It was left to Erdoğan’s wife, Emine, however, to make this a stand-out International Women’s Day, by describing the old-style Ottoman harem as “an educational establishment for preparing women for life”.
(4) We studied the relationship between social status and ovarian function in female cynomolgus macaques living in socially stable single-male harem groups or in groups of like composition in which social instability was induced by the frequent redistribution of female group members.
(5) Harem groups were quite stable year-round because of dominance and leadership by the stallions and group fidelity by mares and their offsring.
(6) In this population, the immediate factor affecting the movements of females between males was the size of a buck's harem.
(7) Guido procrastinates, retreats into his messy private life with wife and mistress, goes to a nightclub clairvoyant who makes him recall his childhood and he fantasises about keeping a harem of women at bay with a whip, or about being hounded to death by desperate producers and a hostile press.
(8) Harem group, stability resulted from strong dominance by dominant stallions, and fidelity of group members.
(9) This copulatory pattern of infrequent matings of short duration and active female solicitation and regulation of copulating timing suggests a harem or monogamous system.
(10) Donation is supposed to be beneficial all round: you can purge the guilty evidence from that time you erred in Topshop ("Yes, harem sweatpants are a tricky trend to pull off, but I'm willing to give it a try!
(11) Horses were organized as forty-four harem groups each with a dominant stallion, one to two immature stallions, one to three immature mares, one to three adult mares and their yearling and foal offspring, and 23 bachelor groups of one to eight stallions.
(12) To test whether exposure to dichlorvos vapors for treatment of mouse ectoparasites resulted in temporary cessation of breeding, we exposed harem breeding groups of mice to varying concentrations of dichlorvos vapors and examined the effects of exposure on litter frequency and litter size.
(13) Here I report that roaring in red deer (Cervus elaphus) advances ovulation and that harem-holding males can improve their mating success by regular calling.
(14) The observation that bucks rarely interfered with their neighbours' harems and females moved freely between bucks suggests that females choose their mates on the basis of male phenotype rather than territory type or location.
(15) Its grasp of gender roles and sexual biology was certainly somewhat lacking in nuance – Voteman appeared to inhabit an island harem of female fellatio enthusiasts for whom contactless orgasms came as standard (perhaps Voteman also has telepathic superpowers).
(16) Options include the TK Maxx chain or the internet, such as the private sales offered by Vente-privee or Net-a-porter's The Outnet, but insiders admit that even then, orange harem pants can come back to haunt them.
(17) Since the regime operates under the guise of a strict Puritanism, these women are not considered a harem, intended to provide delight as well as children.
(18) Stable harem groups with a dominant stallion and bachelor hermaphrodite hermaphrodite groups occupied overlapping home ranges.
(19) Hermaphrodite-hermaphrodite aggression involved spacing between harems and dominance in bachelor groups.
(20) Reproductive behavior includes flehmen, the functional significance of which can be determined using combinations of field observations of harem groups and laboratory studies of stallions exposed to female urine or feces in the absence of the donor mare.
Polygyny
Definition:
(n.) The state or practice of having several wives at the same time; marriage to several wives.
Example Sentences:
(1) The custom of polygyny practised by these people enabled the analysis of associations between full-siblings and half-siblings.
(2) The hypothesis that polygyny is associated with higher fertility than monogamy was evaluated.
(3) Polygyny is common and men control most of the resources.
(4) The hypothesis that the centrosome is maternally inherited was tested during parthenogenesis, polyspermy, and polygyny as well as after recovery from microtubule inhibition at first mitosis.
(5) The high frequency of polygyny in Texas indicates that the fire ant problem in the state is much greater than previously realized.
(6) Male mammals show a diverse array of mating bonds, including obligate monogamy, unimale and group polygyny and promiscuity.
(7) Traditional attitudes towards marriage and sexuality affect urban behavior in the extent of marital stability, the frequency of polygyny, and the emotional bond between spouses.
(8) The frequency of polygyny varied somewhat with geographic region, but the pattern was generally unrelated to habitat and environmental conditions.
(9) These results suggest that the expansion of the cerebral cortex in anthropoids may be associated with terrestriality and polygyny.
(10) The postindependence marriage codes have attempted to give young women more say in choosing a husband, to regulate the practice of bride price, and to limit the practice of polygyny.
(11) Further, the structure of agricultural development has resulted in changes in women's participation in agriculture and polygyny rates, which have had impacts on birth rates.
(12) Polygyny was discovered at 54% of the infested sites.
(13) However, in Nigeria polygyny cannot wholly explain length of postpartum taboo following child birth on the ground that competition among cowives to out do one another in child-bearing results in a tendency of higher fertility and hence shorter postpartum taboo in polygynous households than that in monogamous families.
(14) Data were collected on age, age at marriage, menopause, monogamy or polygyny, total number of children born, number of miscarriages, number of stillbirths, number of children currently living, and contraception.
(15) The hypothesis was judged to be useless because 1) fertility rates are the product of multiple influences; 2) it is too difficult to separate out these multiple influences, given the variability involved in polygynous practices and the inadequates of the data; and 3) the influence of polygyny on fertility is too slight to take into account.
(16) Hence, the tendency for women in polygynous households to adhere more strictly to rules and taboos relating to postpartum abstinence could be associated to the changing roles of women as they affect their responsibility with respect to the maintenance and training of their children rather than to the institution of polygyny per se.
(17) Although the pharaoh's ant offers relatively good possibilities for the selection of resistance on account of the polygyny, the duration of generations in the range of a whole year under field conditions and the isogeny of the colonies diminished the development of resistance.
(18) Factors of the material environment (availability of water and electricity in the residence), size of a household and number of wage earners in it are pervasive and suggest a polarity between archaic elements in the society (low material comfort, polygyny, absence of contraception) and the more forward looking (monogamy, tertiary occupations).
(19) These include the male's greater aggressiveness, the preponderance of polygyny over polyandry, and differences in the antecedents of jealousy.
(20) polyspermy, polygyny, asynchrony between male and female pronucleus development, and preactivation of cytokinesis.