monandry
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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).
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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 achieved by the transfer of genetic material from one cell to another (Raikov 1995; Dacks and Roger 1999)."