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polyandric

[ pol-ee-an-drik ]

adjective



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Word History and Origins

Origin of polyandric1

First recorded in 1865–70; polyandr(y) + -ic
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Example Sentences

However singular their system may appear to us, it is the most logical and complete of any polyandric system.

Sir James Ramsay agrees that the Britons tattooed their bodies with woad, recognises the fact that their matrimonial customs were polyandric, and that brother-and-sister marriage obtained, and generally accepts the prevalent ideas as to Celtic Druidism with its sacrificial rites and the system of "state worship."

IV, Polyandric and V. polygynic unions fall into the same divisions, save that they are naturally always unilateral.

Some people, I may add, are under the impression that polyandric habits, when once established, become necessarily a cause of infanticide.

Among certain species of ducks when males are in excess polyandric families are constituted, the two males attending their female partner without jealousy, but when the sexes again become equal in number the monogamic order is restored.

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