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bilateral descent

noun

Definitions

  1. Descent traced from all biological descendants, regardless of sex and side of the family.

  2. Descent traced from an ancestor, regardless of sex and side of the family of the…

    Descent traced from an ancestor, regardless of sex and side of the family of the intervening generations.

    • Only by bilateral descent is a boy related to his mother's grandfather.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bilateral descent. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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