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Answer for the clue "Various relations had more children? ", 15 letters:
extended family

Word definitions for extended family in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
An extended family is a family that extends beyond the nuclear family , consisting of parents, aunts, uncles, and cousins, all living nearby or in the same household. An example is a married couple that lives with either the husband or the wife's parents. ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a family consisting of the nuclear family and their blood relatives

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And we can no longer rely on the extended family being dose at hand. ▪ Different cultures have different attitudes to such obligations; for some it is merely an extension of an already extended family . ▪ Everybody here is like ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A family consisting of parents and children, along with either grandparents, grandchildren, aunts or uncles, cousins, etc.

Usage examples of extended family.

His extended family was holding a reunion in Providence, so the bakery would close for the first two weeks of October and everyone would go without pay.

The AAnn, Flinx knew, were famed for their skill at organization, their technical expertise, and their rigid, tightly knit society based on the structure of the extended family and a contemporary derivative of ancient reptilian nobility.

It had been dragged from God knows where to house what looked like an entire extended family.

They might have been a group of friends on holiday, members of an extended family setting off to visit far-flung relations, or simply locals out for an afternoon's diversion, intent on sampling the delights of the port's many shops and restaurants.

We were to rendezvous here with other members of our extended family, but there seems to have been a problem, and they have not arrived.

Jondalar gave Thonolan an appraising look, wondering if the responsibilities of a mate and extended family were weighing heavily on his carefree younger brother.

Shadow his friends, track down his lovers, locate members of his extended family, but Judge had neither the means nor time to gather such information.