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bilateral descent

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.51 in modern English

Syllables
bi-lat-er-al de-s-cent
IPA
21
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
6
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Descent traced from all biological descendants, regardless of sex and side of the family.

Uncountable

noun

Descent traced from an ancestor, regardless of sex and side of the family of the intervening generations.

Uncountable

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Inflected Forms

bilateral descents (plural)

Questions

What does bilateral descent mean?
Descent traced from all biological descendants, regardless of sex and side of the family.

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