polyandry / ˈpɒl iˌæn dri, ˌpɒl iˈæn- /

📖毕业后词汇多配偶制一夫多妻制多妻制一夫多妻

polyandry 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. the practice or condition of having more than one husband at one time.Compare monandry.
  2. the habit or system of having two or more mates, either simultaneously or successively.
  3. Botany. the state of being polyandrous.

polyandry 近义词

polyandry

等同于 polygamy

polyandry 的近义词 2

更多polyandry例句

  1. They practice polyandry.258 Infanticide was frequent among them until suppressed under the action of Government.
  2. In Polynesia, where polyandry was very prevalent, this custom was at one time fairly rampant.
  3. Under such circumstances the custom of polyandry is intelligible without further explanation.
  4. It is everywhere set aside, to a greater or less extent, in favour of the two forms of polygamy—polygyny and polyandry.
  5. Hence the original form of polygamy was probably not polygyny—the only form, practically, that later occurs—but polyandry.