adelphogamous

comparative more adelphogamous · superlative most adelphogamous

1. Of, related to, or engaging in adelphogamy.

   Furthermore, the constancy of adelphogamous marriages in the phylogeny of Anergates is a phenomenon the like of which is as yet unknown in nature.

   1928, August Forel, The Social World of the Ants, page 407

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   Abydos was the ancestral abode of the adelphogamous Ahmose and its associated Turkish city, and Parisina, the grandmother-in-law of Lucrezia Borgia, was incestuous in her own right.

   1973, Luciano P. R. Santiago, The Children of Oedipus: Brother-Sister Incest in Psychiatry, Literature, History and Mythology, page 114

   It is even conceivable that parasitic species are less "adelphogamous" than previously assumed since it has not been established with certainty that true brothers and sisters within polygynous colonies really mate with each other at all.

   1974, Edward O. Wilson, The Insect Societies, page 324