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Definitions of polyandry in various dictionaries:
noun - having more than one husband at a time
The condition or practice of having more than one husband at one time.
A mating pattern in which a female mates with more than one male in a single breeding season.
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| polygamy in which a woman has more than one husband. |
| having more than one husband at a time |
| Polygamy in which a woman has more than one husband. |
| the practice of having more than one husband or permanent male sexual partner at the same time |
| the practice of a female animal having more than one male mate ( sexual partner) |
| The condition or practice of having more than one husband at one time. |
| Zoology A mating pattern in which a female mates with more than one male in a single breeding season. |
| Botany The condition of being polyandrous. |
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Polyandry (; from Greek: - poly-, "many" and anr, "man") is a form of polygamy in which a woman takes two or more husbands at the same time. Polyandry is contrasted with polygyny, involving one male and two or more females. If a marriage involves a plural number of "husbands and wives" participants of each gender, then it can be called polyamory, group or conjoint marriage. In its broadest use, polyandry refers to sexual relations with multiple males within or without marriage. * Of the 1,231 societies listed in the 1980 Ethnographic Atlas, 186 were found to be monogamous; 453 had occasional polygyny; 588 had more frequent polygyny; and 4 had polyandry. Polyandry is less rare than this figure suggests, as it considered only those examples found in the Himalayan mountains (28 societies). More recent studies have found more than 50 other societies practicing polyandry.Fraternal polyandry is practiced among Tibetans in Nepal, parts of China and part of northern India, in which two or more |