cross-cousins

A form of cross-cousin — The child of one's father's sister or of one's mother's brother; a cousin related via opposite-gender siblings rather than same-gender ones (the latter being a parallel cousin).

Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of cross-cousin
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