cross-cousin
cross-cousin · cross-cousins
The child of one's father's sister or of one's mother's brotherThe 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).
Meaning
1 sensesThe 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.
Translations
1 languagesOrigin
From cross- + cousin.From cross- + cousin.
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