Today's Word "consanguineous"
Of the same blood
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consanguineous \kon-san(g)-GWIN-ee-us\ (adjective) - Of the same blood; related by birth; descended from the same parent or ancestor.
"Tim and Betsy showed him a family tree that was periodically updated, like the US census. He saw his own name and where he fit into that consanguineous universe and learned that he was directly descended from two people who'd come to America no long after the Mayflower." - Philip Caputo, 'Acts of Faith'
Consanguineous is from Latin consanguineus, from com-, con-, "with, together" + sanguineus, from sanguis, sanguin-, "blood." The noun form is consanguinity, "relationship by blood, or close relation or connection."
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