monandry
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monandry
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From mono- + -andry.
noun
- The possession of only one husband at one time.
- The condition of being monandrous.
- A mating system in which all of the eggs of a female are fertilized by sperm from the same male (over one breeding season or over a lifetime). Yet monandry does exist in short-lived invertebrates (Shuster 1989a,b; Robinson and Allgeyer 1996; Fischer and Fiedler 2000; Jones 2001), in certain birds (Mauck et al. 1995) and mammals (Sever and Mendelssohn 1985; Brotherton et al. 1997), as well as in protistan species in which sexuality is achie
Opposite: polyandry
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noun
Opposite: polyandry
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title = {monandry},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-07}
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