Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The state or practice of having one husband at a time.
- noun Botany The condition of being monandrous.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The monandrous state; the practice of having only one husband.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The possession by a woman of only one husband at the same time; -- contrasted with
polyandry .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The possession by a
woman of only onehusband at one time.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the state of having only one husband at a time
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Examples
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But because males are haploid (and assuming monandry), her sisters share 75% of her genes.
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In fact, assuming monandry, 75% of her genes are found in the next generation's queen, but that is still more than if she directly reproduced.
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Consequently, female workers share up to 75% (assuming monandry) of their genes.
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Consequently, female workers share up to 75% (assuming monandry) of their genes.
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But because males are haploid (and assuming monandry), her sisters share 75% of her genes.
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During the past fifty years, these people have made rapid strides toward civilization, monandry and monogamy taking the places of polyandry and polygamy, and fifty or a hundred years hence, this matriarchate will, in all probability, entirely disappear.
Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire James Weir 1881
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Polyandry gives women certain privileges which monandry denies, and she is not slow to seize on these prerogatives, and to use them in the furtherance of her own welfare.
Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire James Weir 1881
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Wilutzky [1262] thinks that child marriage amongst savages began in the desire of a man to get a wife to himself (monandry) out of the primitive communalism, without violating the customs of ancestors.
Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals William Graham Sumner 1875
whichbe commented on the word monandry
This word sounds very gimpish.
November 22, 2008