Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That form of polyandry in which a number of brothers have a wife in common.
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- noun A form of
polyandry where a woman is married to two or more brothers. - noun
Marriage between a brother and a sister.
Etymologies
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From adelpho- + -gamy.
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- (of muscles) draw towards a central axis. adductor, n. such a muscle. adelphogamy
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sionnach commented on the word adelphogamy
1. A form of polyandry in which two or more brothers have or share the same wife, or wives.
2. Possibly, the marriage of a brother and sister to each other.
3. In zoology, mating of brothers and sisters, as with certain kinds of ants.
4. In botany, fertilization between two different individuals derived vegetatively from the same parent plant.
December 15, 2007