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 .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The fact of being
born after someone else of the samebloodline .
Etymologies
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From post- + geniture.
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