consanguineous

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Several children were the result of consanguineous marriages, in which the parents are related.

From Science Daily • Feb. 8, 2024

“Ninety percent of the cases I see are caused by consanguineous marriages,” says Ms Zaki.

From Economist • Feb. 25, 2016

With the pianist-brother's recent success, however, the consanguineous harmonies of the trio will no longer be heard.

From Time Magazine Archive

Powerful as many of them have been, they assimilated, in this respect, with nations differently governed, but of consanguineous affinity; they formed a fragment only of a greater and more general civilization.

From The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)

Whatever the color selected, I observed that each twin-soul priest and priestess wore robes of a consanguineous hue, however the individual stuffs might vary in texture or quality.

From The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar by Bradshaw, William Richard