cousin

cousin
/kszsn/
Kindred in the fourth degree, being the issue (male or female) of the brother or sister of one's father or mother. Those who descend from the brother or sister of the father of the person spoken of are called "paternal cousins", "maternal cousins" are those who are descended from the brothers or sisters of the mother.
Cousins-german are first cousins.
@ first cousins
Cousins-german; the children of one's uncle or aunt.
@ quarter cousin
Properly, a cousin in the fourth degree; but the term has come to express any remote degree of relationship, and even to bear an ironical signification in which it denotes a very trifling degree of intimacy and regard. Often corrupted into "cater" cousin.
@ second cousins
Persons who are related to each other by descending from the same great-grandfather or greatgrandmother. The children of one's first cousins are his second cousins. These are sometimes called "first cousins once removed."
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Black's law dictionary. . 1990.

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