Pōl'y-gā'mi-ă, n.

n. [Fr. polygamie. See POLYGAMY.] (Bot.) A class of plants, in the Linnæan system, bearing hermaphrodite flowers, with male or female flowers, or both, not inclosed in the same common calyx, but scattered either on the same plant, or on two or three distinct individuals, in separate flowers. Martyn.