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Polyandry

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The condition or practice of having more than one husband at one time.

n. Zoology A mating pattern in which a female mates with more than one male in a single breeding season.

n. Botany The condition of being polyandrous.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. : The having of a plurality of husbands at the same time; usually, the marriage of a woman to more than one man, or the practice of having several husbands, at the same time.

n. : The mating pattern whereby a female copulates with plural males.

n. : Sexual relations with plural males, by a female or a male, human or non-human, within or without marriage.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The possession by a woman of more than one husband at the same time; -- contrasted with monandry.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The state of having more husbands than one at the same time; plurality of husbands.

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

n. having more than one husband at a time

Word Usage

"But in fact “polygamy” means having more than one spouse at a time, including both polygyny and polyandry, which is having more than one male spouse at a time."

Antonym

monandry

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

polygamy

Cross Reference

seraglio concubine

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Landry

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

polygamist polygamy polygyny Evelyn monogamy