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 and polygamy are both evidences of a crude and half-evolved humanity.
From A Woman of the World Her Counsel to Other People's Sons and Daughters by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler
Polyandry in the joint family group was not due to a licentious view of marriage; far otherwise, it was an expression of the communism which is characteristic of this organisation.
From The Position of Woman in Primitive Society A Study of the Matriarchy by Hartley, C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine)
Polyandry: where a female mates with more than one male.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.
