consanguinity
21Consanguinity — Blood relationship because of common ancestry.Everyone carries rare recessive alleles, rare genes that are generally innocuous in the heterozygous state but that in the company of another gene of the same type are capable of causing an autosomal… …
22consanguinity — Synonyms and related words: affiliation, affinity, agnation, alliance, ancestry, apparentation, birth, blood, blood relationship, bloodline, branch, breed, brotherhood, brothership, cognation, common ancestry, common descent, common source,… …
23consanguinity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. See relation. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Any close connection] Syn. affiliation, connection, affinity, association; see brotherhood 1 , relationship . 2. [Blood relationship] Syn. kinship, lineage,… …
24consanguinity — con|san|guin|i|ty [ˌkɔnsæŋˈgwınıti US ˌka:n ] n [U] formal [Date: 1300 1400; : Old French; Origin: consanguinité, from Latin, from com ( COM ) + sanguis blood ] when people are members of the same family …
25consanguinity — con·san·guin·i·ty || ‚kÉ’nsæŋ gwɪnÉ™tɪ n. kinship, blood relation, connection through common ancestry …
26consanguinity — n. Relationship (by blood), kindred, kin, blood kindred, blood relationship …
27consanguinity — noun (U) formal the state of being members of the same family …
28consanguinity — n kinship, blood relationship, family tie or connection, common ancestry or lineage, cognation; filiation, enation, agnation, sibship; relationship, connection, association, affiliation …
29consanguinity — con·san·guin·i·ty …
30consanguinity — n. relationship by blood; the sharing of a common ancestor within a few generations …
