| 单词 | fraternal polyandry |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfraternal polyandry c. fraternal polyandry, a form of polyandry in which brothers hold a wife in common; fraternal twin, a dizygotic twin. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > types of marriage custom or practice > [noun] > polygamy > polyandry polyandry1680 polyandrism1801 polyandrianism1820 polyandria1866 fraternal polyandry1896 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > [noun] > twins > a twin > fraternal fraternal twin1896 fraternal1911 the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > [noun] > offspring > multiple offspring: twins > twins: one of > twin: specific type identical twin1889 fraternal twin1896 fraternal1911 identical1917 1896 W. Crooke Tribes & Castes N.-W. Provinces & Oudh II. 445 On this fraternal polyandry, see Westermarck. 1904 H. H. Wilder in Amer. Jrnl. Anat. 3 389 Corresponding to this hypothesis..we may designate these two types [of twin] respectively as Fraternal and Duplicate, thus doing away with the misleading and inapplicable terms ‘identical’ and ‘homologous’ as applied to the one type, and furnishing a distinguishing term for the other, which seems thus far to have remained without a name. 1917 H. H. Newman Biol. of Twins i. 8 Biologists have for some time recognized at least two distinct types of human twins: fraternal and duplicate. Fraternal twins may or may not be same-sexed, are usually no more alike than are brothers and sisters, and are believed to be dizygotic, derived from two fertilized eggs. 1921 E. Westermarck Hist. Human Marriage (ed. 5) III. xxix. 116 Fraternal polyandry is more or less common in vast districts of the Himalayan region..chiefly among people of Tibetan affinities. 1921 E. Westermarck Hist. Human Marriage (ed. 5) III. xxix. 122 The mountaineers of the Himalayas are not the only people in Northern India that practise fraternal polyandry. 1937 R. H. Lowie Hist. Ethnol. Theory (1938) v. 47 Patrilineal descent results from patrilocal residence with fraternal polyandry. 1938 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. Jan. 356 Comparing the separated identical twins with the fraternal twins it was found that in some of the physical characteristics,..separated identicals were more alike than fraternals. 1941 J. S. Huxley Uniqueness of Man ii. 48 Fraternal twins of like sex, though as we would expect they show considerably less resemblance than identical twins, are more alike than pairs of brothers or sisters born at different times. 1953 R. L. Beals & H. Hoijer Introd. Anthropol. xiv. 429 The ideal pattern of marriage in Toda culture is fraternal polyandry, which dictates that when a woman marries a man she becomes, in theory at least, the wife of all his brothers, both the living and those as yet unborn. < as lemmas |
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