womb-brother

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English

Etymology

From womb +‎ brother.

Noun

womb-brother (plural womb-brothers or womb-brethren)

  1. A brother uterine.
    • 2012, David Gross, Lord of Stormweather: Sembia: Gateway to the Realms - Book 7:
      Only womb-brothers could look so much alike, and Thamalon had been present at Tamlin's birth.
    • 2012, Tim Clarkson, The Picts: A History:
      Father to son inheritance is a key feature of patrilineal succession but is often absent from matrilineal systems where a man is normally succeeded by the son of his sister or by his own womb-brother.
    • 2015, Robert J. Schreiter, Mission in the Third Millennium:
      An Anglican bishop and a Chief Imam could be womb-brothers in Africa.

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