Blood-relation
one related by birth.
Historical Examples
Wanderings in Corsica, Vol. 1 of 2 Ferdinand Gregorovius
Evan Harrington, Complete George Meredith
From the Housetops George Barr McCutcheon
The Prophet Ezekiel Arno C. Gaebelein
The Bbur-nma in English Babur, Emperor of Hindustan
The Parisians, Complete Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The Next of Kin Nellie L. McClung
The Personal History of David Copperfield
Charles Dickens
Old Indian Days [AKA Ohiyesa], Charles A. Eastman
Wyandotte James Fenimore Cooper
noun
a person related to another by birth, as distinct from one related by marriage
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