Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or position of a child born after another in the same family: used specifically of the second born of twins.

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

  • noun rare The condition of being born after another in the same family; -- distinguished from primogeniture.

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  • noun The fact of being born after someone else of the same bloodline.

Etymologies

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From post- +‎ geniture.

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