polyandric

[English polyandr (y); -ic.] Characterized by, or relating to, polyandry; practicing polyandry. Polyandric societies, producing fewer members avail. ble for offense and def ens eur ally gave way before societies having family arrangements more favorable to increase."-Spencer: Sociology (ed. 1885), i. 651. pol-ý-ăn-drist, s. [English polyandr (y); -ist. ] One who practices polyandry. "Phrenological description of Polyandrists."- Mar shall: Phrenologist among the Todas , p. 223. pol-ý-ăn-drous, a. [Mod. Latin polyandr (ia); 1. Bot.: Having more stamens than twenty in Eng. adj. suff. -ous.] serted in the receptacle. 2. Anthrop.: Polyandric (q. v.). "Our British forefathers, who are known to have been polyandrous."-Marshall: Phrenologist among the Todas , p. 222. 3178 pol-y-ăn-dry, s. [POLY AND RIA.] Anthrop.: The marriage of one woman to several men at once. Spencer ( Sociology (ed. 1885), i. 645) traces several forms of it. He considers each form an advance on its predece or: (1) One wife has several unrelated husbands, and each of the husbands has other unrelated wives; (2) the unrelated husbands have but one wife; (3) the husbands are related; (4) the husbands are brothers. The custom is still widely spread in the East. Cæsar ( de Bell . Gall ., v. xiv.) found it in Britain on his arrival. Tacitus ( Germ . , xx.) has been cited as an authority that the ancient Germans practiced polyandry, but Lubbock ( Orig . Civil ., 1882, p. 139) does not consider 180) gives a long list of tribes which he regards as the pa age conclusive. M'Lennan ( Prim . Mar. , D. polyandrous. "The revolting practice of polyandry prevails throughout the interior of Ceylon, chiefly among the wealthier cla es."-Tennent: Ceylon (ed. 1859), ii. 458. *pol-y-anth, s . [POLYANTHUS.] Bot .: A Polyanthus (q. v.). pol-ý-ăn-thēs, 8. [POLIANTHES.] poly chorion with two genera, Polyborus and Ibycter. Sharpe adds also Serpentarius and Cariama. The two outer toes are joined to the middle toe by a mem brane.