Monandry
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Monandry is a noun meaning The possession of only one husband at one time.
Meaning
The possession of only one husband at one time.
More Meanings
- (botany) The condition of being monandrous.
- (zoology) A mating system in which all of the eggs of a female are fertilized by sperm from the same male (over one breeding season or over a lifetime).
Example Sentences
Yet monandry does exist in short-lived invertebrates (Shuster 1989a,b; Robinson and Allgeyer 1996; Fischer and Fiedler 2000; Jones 2001), in certain birds (Mauck et al. 1995) and mammals (Sever and Mendelssohn 1985; Brotherton et al. 1997), as well as in protistan species in which sexuality is achieved by the transfer of genetic material from one cell to another (Raikov 1995; Dacks and Roger 1999).
Antonyms for monandry
Common opposites include polyandry.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include monoandry, monogyny, monogamy, supermonogamy, polyandry, monodomy.
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