AGNATE

agnate

Noun

  1. A relative whose relation is traced only through male members of the family.
    A great grandfather is an agnate if he is your father’s father’s father.
  2. Any paternal male relative.

Adjective

  1. Related to someone by male connections or on the paternal side of the family.
  2. allied; akin


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