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Blood relative   /bləd rˈɛlətɪv/   Listen
Blood relative

noun
1.
One related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with another.  Synonyms: blood relation, cognate, sib.






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"Blood relative" Quotes from Famous Books



... to sustain me now, no commission, no decision by experts and familiars to back me up, so I can only obey the commands of the patient himself,—and do the best I can for him. He insists on having the operation performed—and by me. I am one of the family. I am his only blood relative. It is meet and just, says he, that I should be the one, and not some disinterested, callous outsider. That is the way he puts it, and I have not ...
— From the Housetops • George Barr McCutcheon



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