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polyˈandrian, a. rare.
[f. prec. + -an.]
1. Bot. = polyandrous 1.
a1794Sir W. Jones Tales (1807) 170 Taught..To class by pistil and by stamen, Produce from nature's rich dominion Flow'rs polyandrian monogynian.
2. = polyandrous 2.
1809Southey in Q. Rev. II. 115 In Malabar the polyandrian system of polygamy prevails. 1891G. W. Cooke Browning Guide-Bk. 385 Of this polyandrian lady, no further mention occurs.
Hence polyˈandrianism = polyandry.
1820Southey Lett. (1856) III. 200. 1829 ― Sir T. More (1831) II. 199 The regulated polyandrianism which Cæsar found established in the south of Britain. |