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Enate

adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Related to someone by female connections.
  2. 2
    Related on the maternal side of the family.
  3. 3
    Having identical grammatical structure (but with elements that are semantically different).
  4. 4
    Growing out.
Adjective
  1. 1
    related on the mother's side wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A relative whose relation is traced only through female members of the family.

    "A great-grandmother is an enate if she is your mother’s mother's mother."

  2. 2
    one related on the mother's side wordnet
  3. 3
    Any maternal female relative.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Latin ēnātus.

Etymology 2

From Latin ēnātus.

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