polyandrous
- adjective
- /ˌpɒliˈændrəs/
:
poliandrista
- Do we see more depictions in porno movies of polygynous arrangements, one man having sex with multiple women, or do we see more polyandrous depictions, one woman with multiple men?
Examples
-
Among sex-role reversed species, a small group are classically polyandrous; that is, the socially dominant females mate with multiple males, each of which tends a clutch of eggs.
Academic text (1995) -
To find out whether females were indeed polyandrous, we attempted to follow their movements.
Academic text (1993) -
Well, surprisingly, a very exhaustive content analysis by a researcher at Brunel University found that polyandrous depictions were much more common.
Academic text (2013) -
He surmised that where males were responsible for parental care and females were the larger or brighter sex, the species would be polyandrous.
Academic text (1995) -
They found that the sperm collected subsequent to the viewing of polyandrous photos had much greater motility, which is exactly what you would expect if the sperm competition hypothesis were operative.
Academic text (2013) -
To ascertain whether Harris' hawks in New Mexico were polyandrous, like those in Arizona, I painstakingly caught, marked, observed, and collected blood samples from free-ranging hawks.
Academic text (1990) -
While previous researchers in Arizona had reported that this species was commonly polyandrous, with one female mating with two or more males, some preliminary field research from Texas indicated that the Harris hawk was mostly monogamous, each nest tended by a mated pair, the most common situation among birds.
Academic text (1990) -
Male-only care is often associated with polyandrous mating systems, whereas female-only care is associated with polygyny and leks (modified from Szkely and Reynolds 1995).
Academic text (2006) -
They had men take one of two images home, either one that depicted a polyandrous sex act—one woman, multiple men—or not, and then the men returned with the fruits of their manual labor, so to say, which was then analyzed.
Academic text (2013) -
In some cultures, women may choose to be polyandrous by marrying multiple husbands at the same time.
Synonyms
5
7.7
Having more than one wife or husband at the same time
5
7.8
Having romantic relationships with more than one person at the same time with everyone's agreement
1
7.5
Having more than one romantic or sexual partner at the same time
Antonyms
How Monogamous
38
5.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
polyandrous = polyandry (semi-transparent) = poly + andr + ous
The adjective is formed regularly from the noun 'polyandry' with the suffix '-ous', but the classical base is specialized and not fully transparent to average learners.
Etymology
Polyandrous comes from two parts: poly- meaning 'many' and andr- meaning 'man' or 'husband', the same part you see in android ('man-shaped'). So, a polyandrous woman has 'many' husbands or mates at the same time.