Crossword clues for blood relative
blood relative
Wiktionary
n. A person who is related to another through a common ancestor, and not merely by marriage or adoption.
WordNet
n. one related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with another [syn: blood relation, cognate, sib]
Usage examples of "blood relative".
Not being her blood relative, he knows he's got no legal right to anything she left behind.
You killed a close blood relative of mine who was beyond your reach, in his own island fortress on Lantau.
Vonnegut: If they asked for too much, he could tell them to go screw, just the way he would a blood relative.
But once Conrad was there, I had a perfect right to help a needy blood relative.
I did not intend the former, who had kidnapped and abused my own blood relative, nor perhaps the latter either, to escape from this party unscathed.
They would become wards of the state and be assigned to separate foster homes unless she, their only remaining blood relative, assumed control.
Since Lord Rondymense's bequest of his Ship Yard went to a blood relative, there was nothing to contend.
In every successful story- every story that is loved and admired by at least one reader who is not a close friend or blood relative of the author-the author has created characters who somehow inspire enough admiration, respect, or awe that readers are willing to identify with them, to become their disciples for the duration of the tale.