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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Involving bigamy.
  • adjective Guilty of bigamy.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to bigamy; guilty of bigamy; involving bigamy: as, a bigamous marriage.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Guilty of bigamy; involving bigamy.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective of a marriage involving bigamy
  • adjective of a spouse guilty of bigamy

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of illegal marriage to a second person while legally married to a first

Etymologies

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bi- + -gamous

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