polyandrous
Speech parts
1. polyandrous - Adjective
2. polyandrous - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Belonging to the class Polyandria; having many stamens, or any number above twenty, inserted in the receptacle.
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In Tibet, polyandry has been outlawed since the Chinese takeover of the area, so it is difficult to measure the incidence of polyandry in what may have been the world's most polyandrous society.
Other species have polygynous ("many females") or, rarely, polyandrous ("many males") breeding systems.
Macmillan & Co, 1932. p. 33. *"The Maasai are polyandrous".
New York: Falstaff Press, 1937. vol. 2, p. 219. * Marquesans had "a society in which households were polyandrous."
Polyandry main Polyandry is notably more rare than polygyny, though less rare than the figure commonly cited in the Ethnographic Atlas (1980) which listed only those polyandrous societies found in the Himalayan Mountains.
Their social organization is unique among primates and is called a "cooperative polyandrous group".