polyandry
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Polyandry is the most widespread feature of Ladakh society; when a woman marries a man, she often marries his younger brothers also.
From Time Magazine Archive
Polyandry, for some reason not wholly accounted for by anthropologists, reduces the fertility of wives, and produces an abnormal ratio of male to female births.
From Time Magazine Archive
Polyandry, polygamy, and monogamy, have been general among some animals while among others only one form of mating has been the rule.
From Sex--The Unknown Quantity The Spiritual Function of Sex by McIvor-Tyndall, Alexander J. (Alexander James)
Polyandry: where a female mates with more than one male.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.
Free Love, Marriage, Polygamy, Polyandry, Varietism, Promiscuity—these were but tossing chips of nomenclature, bits of verbal welter, upborne by deep terrible human currents that appalled the imagination!
From Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Kemp, Harry
