sibling

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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