(n.) The apartments or portion of the house allotted to females in Mohammedan families.
(n.) The family of wives and concubines belonging to one man, in Mohammedan countries; a seraglio.
Example Sentences:
(1) • +30 22740 22045 Don’t miss Chios made its fortune from the harvesting of mastic, a tree resin once chewed in the harems of Ottoman Istanbul.
(2) Harem formation concurrent with mating has been observed, and the bond between the mother and her young extends beyond extends beyond nursing.
(3) It was left to Erdoğan’s wife, Emine, however, to make this a stand-out International Women’s Day, by describing the old-style Ottoman harem as “an educational establishment for preparing women for life”.
(4) We studied the relationship between social status and ovarian function in female cynomolgus macaques living in socially stable single-male harem groups or in groups of like composition in which social instability was induced by the frequent redistribution of female group members.
(5) Harem groups were quite stable year-round because of dominance and leadership by the stallions and group fidelity by mares and their offsring.
(6) In this population, the immediate factor affecting the movements of females between males was the size of a buck's harem.
(7) Guido procrastinates, retreats into his messy private life with wife and mistress, goes to a nightclub clairvoyant who makes him recall his childhood and he fantasises about keeping a harem of women at bay with a whip, or about being hounded to death by desperate producers and a hostile press.
(8) Harem group, stability resulted from strong dominance by dominant stallions, and fidelity of group members.
(9) This copulatory pattern of infrequent matings of short duration and active female solicitation and regulation of copulating timing suggests a harem or monogamous system.
(10) Donation is supposed to be beneficial all round: you can purge the guilty evidence from that time you erred in Topshop ("Yes, harem sweatpants are a tricky trend to pull off, but I'm willing to give it a try!
(11) Horses were organized as forty-four harem groups each with a dominant stallion, one to two immature stallions, one to three immature mares, one to three adult mares and their yearling and foal offspring, and 23 bachelor groups of one to eight stallions.
(12) To test whether exposure to dichlorvos vapors for treatment of mouse ectoparasites resulted in temporary cessation of breeding, we exposed harem breeding groups of mice to varying concentrations of dichlorvos vapors and examined the effects of exposure on litter frequency and litter size.
(13) Here I report that roaring in red deer (Cervus elaphus) advances ovulation and that harem-holding males can improve their mating success by regular calling.
(14) The observation that bucks rarely interfered with their neighbours' harems and females moved freely between bucks suggests that females choose their mates on the basis of male phenotype rather than territory type or location.
(15) Its grasp of gender roles and sexual biology was certainly somewhat lacking in nuance – Voteman appeared to inhabit an island harem of female fellatio enthusiasts for whom contactless orgasms came as standard (perhaps Voteman also has telepathic superpowers).
(16) Options include the TK Maxx chain or the internet, such as the private sales offered by Vente-privee or Net-a-porter's The Outnet, but insiders admit that even then, orange harem pants can come back to haunt them.
(17) Since the regime operates under the guise of a strict Puritanism, these women are not considered a harem, intended to provide delight as well as children.
(18) Stable harem groups with a dominant stallion and bachelor hermaphrodite hermaphrodite groups occupied overlapping home ranges.
(19) Hermaphrodite-hermaphrodite aggression involved spacing between harems and dominance in bachelor groups.
(20) Reproductive behavior includes flehmen, the functional significance of which can be determined using combinations of field observations of harem groups and laboratory studies of stallions exposed to female urine or feces in the absence of the donor mare.
Polyandry
Definition:
(n.) The possession by a woman of more than one husband at the same time; -- contrasted with monandry.
Example Sentences:
(1) A 'low recurrence polyandry' is observed in the sperm dimorphic species D. affinis while a 'high recurrence polyandry' is observed in the sperm monomorphic species D. latifasciaeformis and D. littoralis.
(2) Type II is female-headed and daughters bring children into the household by de facto polyandry (41%), but sons formally weds monogamously.
(3) Mark you, I think you probably need plenty of money for polyandry.
(4) The results imply that tolerance by the national government of polyandry within certain minority groups (e.g.
(5) Type I households have as head a women whose husband either visits or lives with her but is not legally bound to her; it is de facto polyandry (26.7% of survey households).
(6) National government should practice tolerance of polyandry as an acid to the attainment of zero population growth.
(7) The phenomenon is not correlated with an unusually large degree of male parental investment, polyandry, greater aggressiveness in females than in males, greater development of weapons in females, female dominance, or matriarchy.
(8) The concern is that the nonHan might raise the national birth rate and reduce the proportion of Han, even though nonHan life expectancy is lower and there is practice of polyandry.
(9) The general practice of polyandry is described as a walking marriage where women control material resources.
(10) Discussion is provided on the polyandry found among villagers of Limi in the Highlands of Nepal and the Tre-ba of Central Tibet, where there is fraternal polyandry patriarchies, where fertility rates of these unions were not higher, and a sizeable fraction of women 20-49 were left without mates (31% in Limi and 29% in Dhinga).
(11) These include the male's greater aggressiveness, the preponderance of polygyny over polyandry, and differences in the antecedents of jealousy.
(12) Males in the three species are equally polygynous but females differ in the level of polyandry.
(13) The results indicate that polyandry, by a large number of males, is not a common phenomenon in M. rotundata bee species.
(14) 'obligatory' polyandry) should only result in sperm monomorphism irrespective of the absolute value of sperm length.
(15) The Musuo have practiced matrilineal polyandry since the Yuan dynasty (1271-1368 AD).
(16) Field studies of callitrichid species have reported a surprising degree of variation in the composition of social groups, some of which has been interpreted as evidence of 'cooperative polyandry' in recent reviews.
(17) Female mating bonds include long-term monogamy, serial monogamy, polyandry and promiscuity.
(18) Since reactivity to syphilis was associated with poverty, poor hygiene, polyandry, polygamy, and illiteracy, citizens living in Himachal Pradesh were at great risk of acquiring HIV from a foreigner.
(19) In Kerala state, India and among the Kandyan Sinhalese of Sri Lanka, polyandry may not increase the fertility of individual wives, and is economically resourceful.