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cross cousin

Noun

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cross cousin (plural cross cousins)

The child of a maternal uncle or of a paternal aunt

cross-cousin (plural cross-cousins)

(anthropology) 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).
Many societies forbid marriage between parallel cousins, but encourage marriage between cross-cousins or second cross-cousins.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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cross-cousin

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