monogamous

2 definitions • 4 examples

being married to, or having a sexual relationship with, only one person at a time:

a monogamous relationship

I am in a monogamous marriage and we have two sons.

A monogamous animal or bird has only one mate (= sexual partner) at a time:

The puffin usually returns to the same puffin wife as it is very monogamous.

Pair-bonding probably evolved in a similar way in prairie voles as in other monogamous animals.