monandryn.
/mɒˈnandri/, /məˈnandri/, U.S. /məˈnændri/ 1.
a. The custom or practice of having only one husband at a time. Cf. earlier polyandry n. Now rare.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > types of marriage custom or practice > [noun] > monogamy > of woman
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1855 F. P. Cobbe Ess. Intuitive Morals I. 155 Monogamy and Monoandry are general rules conducive to the Happiness of mankind.
1882 A. Macfarlane Consanguinity 8 In countries where monandry is established.
1904 Contemp. Rev. Oct. 486 From promiscuity..to..monogamy and monandry, every possible phase and form of the institution [of marriage] can be studied outside of the human species.
1937 Man 37 104 Wherever modern European culture has penetrated and modified indigenous culture, polyandry is giving way to monandry.
b. Chiefly Entomology. The practice of mating with only one male.
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1982 Amer. Naturalist 119 275 This mechanism..provides a general, testable hypothesis for the evolution of monandry and polyandry in the Hymenoptera.
1987 Jrnl. Amer. Mosquito Control Assoc. 3 481 (title) Monandry (monogamy) in natural populations of anopheline mosquitoes.
1996 Behavioral Ecol. & Sociobiol. 39 285 In Lepidoptera, female mating systems range from strict monandry to strong polyandry.
2. Botany. The condition, in a plant, of having only one perfect stamen. rare.
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1900 B. D. Jackson Gloss. Bot. Terms 314/2 Monandry, the condition in question [sc. of having but one perfect stamen].
1929 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 16 549 Any fluctuation between monandry and diandry is accomplished not by the loss or gain of a stamen but by reverting to the three-flowered condition.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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