Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
polyandrous .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Polyandrous.
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- adjective botany
Polyandrous .
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Examples
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-- A viler state of morals than their polyandrian system must have produced can scarcely be imagined; and the ferocity of their manners, little as is otherwise known of them, is sufficiently shown by their scythed war-chariots, and the fact that in the open country the path from one town to another was by a covered way.
Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society
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