Monandry

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The possession of only one husband at one time. uncountable
  2. 2
    the state of having only one husband at a time wordnet
  3. 3
    The condition of being monandrous. uncountable
  4. 4
    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). uncountable

    "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)."

Etymology

From mono- + -andry.

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