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cross-cousins

cross-cousins is the plural of cross-cousin.

Meaning of cross-cousin

Noun

cross-cousin (plural cross-cousins)

  1. The child of one's father's sister or of one's mother's brother; a cousin related via opposite-gender siblings rather than same-gender ones (the latter being a parallel cousin).
    • Many societies forbid marriage between parallel cousins, but encourage marriage between cross-cousins or second cross-cousins.

Phrases with cross-cousins

Questions about cross-cousins

What is cross-cousins the plural of?
Cross-cousins is the plural of cross-cousin.

Words near cross-cousins in the dictionary

  1. cross-courses
  2. cross-court
  3. cross-cousin
  4. cross-cousin marriage
  5. cross-cousin marriages
  6. cross-cousins
  7. cross-crawl
  8. cross-cultural
  9. cross-cultural communication
  10. cross-culturally
  11. cross-current

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