polyandrist
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of polyandrist
First recorded in 1825–35; polyandr(y) + -ist
Example Sentences
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The Toda tribe, on the Nilgiri Hills, are polyandrists, and, in order to keep down the number of the tribe, they naturally had recourse to female infanticide.
From Project Gutenberg
Shameless polyandrist, she maintains several consorts—from three to five seems to be the average number—and they, semi-transparent, feeble, meek, subdued little fellows, maintain precarious isolated existences in the outskirts of the web.
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