andro-, andr-, -ander, -andra, -andria, -andrian, -andric, -andrism, -androus, -andries, -andry +
(Greek: man, men, male, masculine; also, stamen or anther as used in botany; the opposite of woman or women)
monandrous, monandry
1. A reference to a female who mates with a single male or the custom of having only one husband at a time.
2. In botany, belonging to a class of flower that has a single stamen.
There is a vast difference between the savage and civilized man, but it is usually not apparent to their wives until after breakfast.
—Helen Rowland
nanandrous, nanander
Producing dwarf males.
octandrous, octandrious
In botany, having eight stamens.
oligandrous
1. In botany, having fewer than twenty stamens.
2. Having few stamens.
pentandrous, pentandrious, pentandrian
In botany, having five free stamens.
philander, philanderer
1. To carry on a sexual affair, especially an extramarital affair, with a woman one cannot or does not intend to marry.
2. To engage in many love affairs, especially with a frivolous or casual attitude.
3.
Philanderer actually means "a lover of men" or of "one's husband", but a mistake was made in the adoption from the Greek and a different meaning was applied (according to
David Muschell).
phytoproterandrous
The condition of having ripe pollen before the stigma is receptive.
polyandric
Pertaining to, or characterized by, polyandry; mating with several males: "Recently I saw a TV documentary about polyandric societies."
polyandrion
A mass grave, or a grave containing many human corpses; either as the result of a natural disaster or a war.
polyandrist
1. The marriage of a woman to several (more than two) men at the same time.
2. A woman who practices, or favors, polyandry.
polyandrium
Originally, a cemetery for the many victims of great battles
polyandrous
1. A reference to a female who mates with several males; having more than one husband or having several husbands.
2. Literally having many male sexual partners.
3. In botany, having numerous stamens.
polyandry
1. The civil condition of having more husbands than one for the same woman; a social order permitting plurality of husbands.
2. An animal-mating system seen in polygamous species, in which the female mates with more than one male.
3. The dominance of a female over many males.
protandrous, protandry, protandric
The condition of a hermaphrodite in which the male portion develops first or which is first male, and later sex reversed to female.
2. Said of a flower in which the pollen matures before the stigma is receptive.
proterandrous, proterandry
1. In botany, having the stamens or male organs mature before the pistil or female organ.
2. In zoology, a hermaphrodite animal; or a colony of zooids, having the male organs, or individuals, sexually mature before the female organs.
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Links to other units that include the topic of "man", "mankind":
anthropo-;
homo-;
vir-.
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