Associations to the word «Cognatic»

Wiktionary

COGNATIC, adjective. Of or relating to a mode of descent calculated from an ancestor or ancestress through any combination of male and female links, or a system of bilateral kinship where relations are traced through both father and mother.

Wise words

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.