Definition of Poliandrous
Pol`y*an"drous (?), a. (Bot.)
Belonging to the class Polyandria; having many stamens, or any
number above twenty, inserted in the receptacle.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- of or pertaining to polyandry.
quotations
*"Nestled in this remote area of northwestern Nepal is a tiny settlement of ethnic Tibetan Buddhists, the land of the Nyinba, where UCLA anthropologist Nancy Levine found one of the last flourishing polyandrous populations, a society where women marry several men." — Los Angeles Times, December 25, 1988
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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