blood relations
Your biological relatives
Blood relations are family members connected by biological descent rather than marriage or adoption.
The term emphasizes genetic lineage: parents, siblings, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins are blood relations; spouses and in-laws are not.
She has no blood relations in the country.
Also called blood relatives.
- siblingsFellow offspring
- close relativesImmediate family members
- cousinAunt or uncle's child
- kinBlood-connected people
- familiesRelated people living together
matrilineage · sib · consanguinity · kith and kin · progeny · relatives · next of kin · family bonds · primogeniture · genealogy · family lineage · ancestral roots · family tree · patriarch · descendants · kinship · ancestry · offspring
- familymother, father, parents, siblings, parent
- kinshipmother, father, sister, brother, children
- kinfolkkin, kindred, kinfolk, kinsmen, relatives
- kinship lawconsanguinity, affinity, next of kin, kin, relatives
- lineageancestry, royal dynasties, noble houses, dynasty, genealogy
- aptitude test topicsanalogies, antonyms, synonyms, reading comprehension, vocabulary
blood relationsin-laws
Relatives through marriage
adopted family · stepfamily · foster family · chosen family · godparents
blood relationsstrangers
People unknown to you
non-relatives · friends · acquaintances · chosen family · found family
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