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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Persons related by birth; specifically, the descendants of the same pair. See cognation, 1.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun plural (Law) Relatives by the mother's side.

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  • noun law relatives by the mother's side

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