polyandrist

[pol-ee-an-drist, pol-ee-an-]

noun

1. a woman who practices or favors polyandry.

Word History and Origins

Origin of polyandrist¹

First recorded in 1825–35; polyandr(y) + -ist

Example Sentences

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.

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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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