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half blood definition

half blood

  1. kinship through one parent only sisters of the half blood
  2. half-blood
half-blood definition

half·-blood (-blud′)

noun

  1. a person related to another through one parent only
  2. ☆ half-breed
  3. ☆ 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
also half-blooded half′·-blood′ed

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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