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womb-brother en · NOUN

Etymology

From womb + brother.

Meanings

1. A brother uterine.
   • Only womb-brothers could look so much alike, and Thamalon had been present at Tamlin's birth. 2012, David Gross, Lord of Stormweather: Sembia: Gateway to the Realms - Book 7:
   • An Anglican bishop and a Chief Imam could be womb-brothers in Africa. 2015, Robert J. Schreiter, Mission in the Third Millennium:
   • Father to son inheritance is a key feature of patrilineal succession but is often absent from matrilineal systems where a man is normally succeeded by the son of his sister or by his own womb-brother. 2012, Tim Clarkson, The Picts: A History:

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