polygynic

Handsome, well-dressed girls, with a few polygynic young men in the usual island proportion of the sexes, came out of the cottages, and stood in the lanes talking and laughing, or walked to the edge of the bluff to see the sun go down.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866

Ehrenfels believes that the number of men inapt for satisfactory reproduction is much larger than that of women, and that therefore when these are left out of account, a polygynic marriage order becomes necessary.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society