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monogamously

monogamously adverb: in a monogamous manner.

Adverb

monogamously (comparative more monogamously, superlative most monogamously)

  1. In a monogamous manner.
    • Their closest living relatives, deer mice, dwell in forests instead of open spaces, she learned, and they live promiscuously instead of monogamously.2017 April 19, Carl Zimmer, “Why Are Some Mice (and People) Monogamous? A Study Points to Genes”, in The New York Times

Forms of monogamously

comparativemore monogamously
superlativemost monogamously

Origin of monogamously

From monogamous + -ly.

Words formed from monogamously

Questions about monogamously

What does monogamously mean?
Monogamously means in a monogamous manner.
What part of speech is monogamously?
Monogamously is an adverb.

Words near monogamously in the dictionary

  1. monogamist
  2. monogamistic
  3. monogamists
  4. monogamize
  5. monogamous
  6. monogamously
  7. monogamousness
  8. monogamy
  9. monoganglionic
  10. monoganglioside
  11. monogangliosides

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