Noun:

பல பதிகளை (கணவர்களை)யுடைமை,

polyandry தமிழ் அர்த்தத்தின் உதாரணம்:

None

polyandry's Usage Examples:

Derivatively it includes the practice of polyandry, but it has become definitely restricted to expressing what has been, and still is, far the commonest type of relations between the sexes (see Family and Marriage).

When the islands first became known to Europeans, the Hawaiian family was in a stage including both polyandry and polygyny, and, according to Morgan, older than either: two or more brothers, with their wives, or two or more sisters with their husbands, cohabited with seeming promiscuity.

The Chinese writers say that their customs were like those of the Turks; that they had no cities, lived in felt tents, were ignorant of writing and practised polyandry.

polyandry in natural populations and clones of Sellaphora pupula (Bacillariophyceae ).

Among the customs of the Tibetans, perhaps the most peculiar is polyandry, the brothers in a family having one wife in common.

Like the Yue-Chi they have probably contributed to form some of the physical types of the Indian population, and it is noticeable that polyandry is a recognized institution among many Himalayan tribes, and is also said to be practised secretly by the Jats and other races of the plains.

Polyandry >>Less well known is polyandry, the term for one women having multiple husbands.

In some islands polyandry was practised; in others the natives were monogamous.

Synonyms:

polygamy,

Antonyms:

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