polyandry 的定义
- the practice or condition of having more than one husband at one time.Compare monandry.
- the habit or system of having two or more mates, either simultaneously or successively.
- Botany. the state of being polyandrous.
polyandry 近义词
等同于 polygamy
更多polyandry例句
- They practice polyandry.258 Infanticide was frequent among them until suppressed under the action of Government.
- In Polynesia, where polyandry was very prevalent, this custom was at one time fairly rampant.
- Under such circumstances the custom of polyandry is intelligible without further explanation.
- It is everywhere set aside, to a greater or less extent, in favour of the two forms of polygamy—polygyny and polyandry.
- Hence the original form of polygamy was probably not polygyny—the only form, practically, that later occurs—but polyandry.