Polyandry is

a. a man having more than one wife at a time.
b. a woman having more than one husband at a time.
c. both marriage partners having multiple spouses.
d. a same sex marriage between two men.
e. an arranged marriage in which families are in different social castes (or classes).


ANS: B

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