consanguineous
Meaning of consanguineous
- relating to or denoting people descended from the same ancestor.
consanguineous marriages may give rise to recessive syndromes
early 17th century: from Latin consanguineus ‘of the same blood’ (from con- ‘together’ + sanguis ‘blood’) + -ous.
Information about consanguineous
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of consanguineous
con-san-guineous
- It consists of 3 syllables and 14 chars.
- consanguineous is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
consanguineous synonyms
Meaning akin:
akin, cognate, consanguine, consanguineal, kin
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