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Monandry
noun
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The possession of only one husband at one time. uncountable
- 2 the state of having only one husband at a time wordnet
- 3 The condition of being monandrous. uncountable
- 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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