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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Of the same lineage or origin; having a common ancestor.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Of the same blood; related by birth; descended from the same parent or ancestor.
  2. More specifically Of the same father by different wives; characterized by this relation. Also consanguinean Maine.
  3. Pertaining to or affected by the relation of consanguinity.
  4. In petrography, derived from a common parent magma: said of igneous rocks.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Related by birth; descended from the same parent or ancestor.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Of the same blood; related by birth; descended from the same parent or ancestor.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. related by blood

Etymologies

  1. Learned borrowing from Latin consanguineosus (with English -ous), from com- ("together") + sanguineus ("of or pertaining to blood"), from sanguis ("blood") (Wiktionary)
  2. From Latin cōnsanguineus : com-, com- + sanguineus, of blood; see sanguine. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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