non-monogamous
poly-
prefix
uk /pɒl.i-/ us /pɑː.li-/
many: 许多的，大量的
a polytheistic (= believing in many gods) society多神信仰的社会
a polymath (= person who knows a lot about many different subjects.)博学的人

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Large in number or quantity
a hundred/thousand/million and oneidiom
above and beyond somethingidiom
amount
and then someidiom
another
any amount ofidiom
billion
gazillion
heap
high density
huge
hundred
numerously
out/up the wazooidiom
shower
so much soidiom
some
super-large
thick
thousand

Examples of poly

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Molecular weight dependence of the surface tension of aqueous poly(ethylene oxide) solutions.
Sections (10 mm) were mounted onto slides coated with poly-l-lysine.
Morphosyntactic peculiarities such as agglutination, fusion, (poly)synthesis, and isolating morphosyntax probably deserve articles, if not entries, of their own.
Interactions of poly(ethylene oxide) brushes with chemically selective surfaces.
Endocytosis of poly(ethylene oxide)-modified liposome by human lymphoblastoid cells.
Effective poly-centred dancing stresses the equality of all body parts as synchronic centres of motion over the dominance of one centre over the other.
Crosslinked poly(amido-amine)s as superior matrices for chemical incorporation of highly efficient organic nonlinear optical dyes.
Clearly, we cannot define it using the restricted (poly) rule.
In the present study, we examine possible underlying behavioural mechanisms that contribute to the difference in abundance of insects in poly- versus monocultures.
Small-angle scattering from poly-electrolyte solutions - a novel method for studying counterion condensation.
This in turn is often poly-vocalised via double or multi-tracking, jumping from soothing intimacy (frequently confessional) to a hardened timbre (rebuke) to great shock effect.
An unusually long poly(purine)-poly(pyrimidine) sequence is located upstream from the human thyroglobulin gene.
The poly-energetic protons arrive in the cylinder at different times due to their different velocities, with higher energy protons crossing the cylinder at earlier times.
Given this set of axioms for syllabic structure, we can now use them to help define particular concrete (poly)syllables.
Such dogs are mostly poly-parasitized and suffer from malnutrition, two factors that may greatly affect their immune potency.
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