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half blood
- 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
also half-blooded half′·-blood′ed
Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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