consanguine

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At the very least, he is the Ziegfeld of the U.S. branch of Tibetan Buddhism and its consanguine, quixotic movement to liberate Lhasa from Beijing's rule.

From Time Magazine Archive

But more commonly the two existed together, intimate, clinging, consanguine and inseparable.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

Since the husbands always belonged to a different consanguine group from their wives, and the children followed their mother's line of descent, the family was permanently divided.

From The Delight Makers by Bandelier, Adolph Francis Alphonse

These 'quarters' were the 'calpulli'; hence it follows that the consanguine groups held the altepetlalli or soil of the tribe.

From Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines by Morgan, Lewis H.

The husbands of these women are not of the consanguine group, the gens, of their wives; they are of the gens of their sisters.

From Woman under socialism by De Leon, Daniel