monogamy

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Monogamy is observed in many bird populations where, in addition to the parental care from the female, the male is also a major provider of parental care for the chicks.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Bernard and Lenina's tour of Savage Land spectacles such the House of Want and the House of Monogamy prove to be among the most darkly humorous and familiarly Syfy moments in the series.

From Salon • Jul. 15, 2020

Monogamy, with its crags and chasms, is the most salient and imposing feature in his imaginative landscape, the human undertaking around which all the others are organized.

From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2020

Q. Re: Maybe bi: I think the best way to think of this is this: Monogamy is not a sexual orientation.

From Slate • Apr. 18, 2016

Monogamy means “being married to only one person at a time.”

From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper