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blood relation

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blood relation
n.
A person who is related to another by birth rather than by marriage.

blood relationship n.

blood relation, relative
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Genetics) a person related to another by birth, as distinct from one related by marriage
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Noun1.blood relation - one related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with another
relative, relation - a person related by blood or marriage; "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey"
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blood relation nconsanguineo/a


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It is melancholy to acknowledge it of the blood relation of a "stroke oar," but it must be owned, in the interests of truth, that Julius cultivated his intelligence.
I am not her blood relation, you know--I am merely the General's step-daughter.
The two girls, on whom, kneeling down on the wet ground, and looking through the low, latticed window of Moor House kitchen, I had gazed with so bitter a mixture of interest and despair, were my near kinswomen; and the young and stately gentleman who had found me almost dying at his threshold was my blood relation.
 
 
 
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