Meaning of sibling | Babel Free

Definitions

1. brother
2. A person who shares a parent; one's brother or sister who one shares a parent with.
3. A node in a data structure that shares its parent with another node.
4. One of two or more individuals having one or both parents in common; a brother or sister.
5. bro, dude (friendly term of address for a male of similar age.)
6. The most closely related species, or one of several most closely related species when none can be determined to be more closely related.
7. a person's brother or sister
8. first-person singular present indicative of hermanar
9. (Anthropology & Ethnology) any fellow member of a sib
10. a brother or sister.
11. Anthrop. a member of a sib.
12. A. N → hermano/a m/f
    N
13. B. CPD sibling rivalry N → rivalidad f entre hermanos
    CPD
14. n → Geschwister nt (form)
    n

Equivalents

Examples

“None of my siblings are married yet.”

“D. simulans, D. mauritiana and D. sechellia (which we will call “the siblings” when we do not need to distinguish among them) have homosequential polytene chromosome banding patterns differing from those of D. melanogaster by one long inversion on chromosome arm 3R and a few much smaller inversions.”

“Bush suggested that this difference might represent a case of chromosomal polymorphism or, more likely, sibling species.”

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