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cognatic

cognatic adjective: of or relating to a mode of descent calculated from an ancestor or ancestress through any combination of male and female links, or a system of bilateral kinship where relations are traced through both father and mother.

Adjective

cognatic (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to a mode of descent calculated from an ancestor or ancestress through any combination of male and female links, or a system of bilateral kinship where relations are traced through both father and mother.

Origin of cognatic

From cognate + -ic.

Words formed from cognatic

Questions about cognatic

What does cognatic mean?
Cognatic means of or relating to a mode of descent calculated from an ancestor or ancestress through any combination of male and female links, or a system of bilateral kinship where relations are traced through both father and mother.
What part of speech is cognatic?
Cognatic is an adjective.

Words near cognatic in the dictionary

  1. cognately
  2. cognateness
  3. cognates
  4. cognateship
  5. cognati
  6. cognatic
  7. cognatical
  8. cognatically
  9. cognation
  10. cognations
  11. cognatus

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