half blood
half blood
Definition
half blood
noun
- kinship through one parent only sisters of the half blood
- half-blood
half-blood
Definition
half·-blood (-blud′)
noun
- a person related to another through one parent only
- ☆ half-breed
- ☆ Animal Husbandry an animal with one parent of poor pedigree in contrast to that of the other
Etymology: based on the obsolete notion that the blood is the medium of heredity
adjective
of or having to do with a half-blood
half blood
Usage Examples
Modifies a noun
- prince: And Utopia star - the half blood prince is shocking!
Browse dictionary entries near half blood
- half binding
- half-baked
- half-assed
- half-and-half
- half
- haler
- Haleb
- hale
- Haldane
- halcyon
- half boot
- half-breed
- half brother
- half-caste
- half-cell
- half cock
- half-cocked
- half crown
- half dollar
- half duplex
