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cousinal

cousinal adjective: of or relating to a cousin.

Adjective

cousinal (comparative more cousinal, superlative most cousinal)

  1. (rare) Of or relating to a cousin.
    • Buf if anything the avuncular correlation is less than the cousinal, and accordingly I am not sure that the age and environmental differences would do more than equalise their values.1914, Karl Pearson, The Life, Letters and Labours of Francis Galton, →ISBN, page 334; republished United States: Cambridge University Press, 2011
    • First cousinal marriages were very frequent in colonial Maryland.1975, The Family Search of Clarence Rice Owens, page 10
    Synonyms:
    consobrinal

Synonyms of cousinal

Forms of cousinal

comparativemore cousinal
superlativemost cousinal

Origin of cousinal

From cousin + -al.

Questions about cousinal

What does cousinal mean?
Cousinal means of or relating to a cousin.
What part of speech is cousinal?
Cousinal is an adjective.

Words near cousinal in the dictionary

  1. cousin-sisters
  2. cousin-uncle
  3. cousin-uncles
  4. cousinage
  5. cousinages
  6. cousinal
  7. cousincest
  8. Cousineau
  9. Cousineaus
  10. cousined
  11. cousiness

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