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BILATERAL DESCENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bilateral descent mean?
• BILATERAL DESCENT (noun)
The noun BILATERAL DESCENT has 1 sense:
1. line of descent traced through both the maternal and paternal sides of the family
Familiarity information: BILATERAL DESCENT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Line of descent traced through both the maternal and paternal sides of the family
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("bilateral descent" is a kind of...):
descent; filiation; line of descent; lineage (the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors)
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