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  Adelphogamy - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
Adelphogamy (from the Greek adelphos - brother), or "fraternal polyandry", is a form of marriage in which two or more brothers share one wife or more.
It is found especially in certain areas of Tibet and Nepal, where polyandry is accepted as a social practice.
An example of adelphogamy can be found in the Mahabharata, where Draupadi is the wife of the five Pandavas.
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 Adelphogamy - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Adelphogamy is a form of sexual partnership between sibling eukaryotes, for example in some species of fungi, flowering plants or ants, or in humans.
In sociology, the term adelphogamy may also refer to fraternal polyandry.
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 Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Adelphogamy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
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 Sexology Professor | Marriage
The social and legally recognized ceremony and state in which a man and woman are considered husband and wife and their offspring accepted as legitimate; any social structure designed to regulate sexual relations, parenting, and various duties, including economic support, owed by each partner or spouse to the other.
Adelphogamy: A marriage custom in which two or more brothers sgare one or more wives.
Bigamy: The state of entering into a putative marriage with one person while still legally married to a first spouse.
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 Glossary of Relationship Terms, A-B
The practice on the part of a woman of having more than one male mate at a time, when her mates are brothers of one another, particularly when this is consonant with custom.
See also adelphogamy, fraternal polyandry, polyandry, sororal polygyny.
Comment: Absent in the dictionaries I've checked, but a natural permutation of the word "adelphogamy," so here included.
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