polyandric

Men are boy toys, courtesans, or polyandric husbands, pawns in dynastic fun and power games, at least on the levels where such things go on.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2005

(_Natural History of British Ducks_, pp. 8, 63), the Shoveler duck, though normally monogamic, will become polyandric when males are in excess, the two males being in constant and amicable attendance on the female without signs of jealousy; among the monogamic mallards, similarly, polygyny and polyandry may also occur.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Havelock Ellis 1899

Among certain species of ducks when males are in excess polyandric families are constituted, the two males attending their female partner without jealousy, but when the sexes again become equal in number the monogamic order is restored.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Havelock Ellis 1899

Some people, I may add, are under the impression that polyandric habits, when once established, become necessarily a cause of infanticide.

Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore 1875

She was a goddess of the mother family and polyandric. [

Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals William Graham Sumner 1875