| kin | | |
| n. (person) | 1. family, kin, kinsperson | a person having kinship with another or others.; "he's kin"; "he's family" |
| ~ affine | (anthropology) kin by marriage. |
| ~ relative, relation | a person related by blood or marriage.; "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey" |
| n. (group) | 2. clan, kin, kin group, kindred, kinship group, tribe | group of people related by blood or marriage. |
| ~ social group | people sharing some social relation. |
| ~ mishpachah, mishpocha | (Yiddish) the entire family network of relatives by blood or marriage (and sometimes close friends).; "she invited the whole mishpocha" |
| ~ family unit, family | primary social group; parents and children.; "he wanted to have a good job before starting a family" |
| ~ folks | your parents.; "he wrote to his folks every day" |
| ~ family tree, genealogy | successive generations of kin. |
| ~ totem | a clan or tribe identified by their kinship to a common totemic object. |
| ~ tribes of israel, twelve tribes of israel | twelve kin groups of ancient Israel each traditionally descended from one of the twelve sons of Jacob. |
| ~ relative, relation | a person related by blood or marriage.; "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey" |
| ~ clan member, clansman, clanswoman | a member of a clan. |
| ~ tribesman | someone who lives in a tribe. |
| adj. | 3. akin, blood-related, cognate, consanguine, consanguineal, consanguineous, kin | related by blood. |
| ~ related | connected by kinship, common origin, or marriage. |
| relative | | |
| n. (person) | 1. relation, relative | a person related by blood or marriage.; "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey" |
| ~ individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul | a human being.; "there was too much for one person to do" |
| ~ clan, kin group, kindred, kinship group, kin, tribe | group of people related by blood or marriage. |
| ~ ancestor, antecedent, ascendant, ascendent, root | someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent). |
| ~ cousin, cousin-german, first cousin, full cousin | the child of your aunt or uncle. |
| ~ descendant, descendent | a person considered as descended from some ancestor or race. |
| ~ in-law, relative-in-law | a relative by marriage. |
| ~ blood relation, blood relative, cognate, sib | one related by blood or origin; especially on sharing an ancestor with another. |
| ~ kin, kinsperson, family | a person having kinship with another or others.; "he's kin"; "he's family" |
| ~ enate, matrikin, matrilineal kin, matrilineal sib, matrisib | one related on the mother's side. |
| ~ agnate, patrikin, patrilineal kin, patrilineal sib, patrisib | one related on the father's side. |
| ~ kinsman | a male relative. |
| ~ kinswoman | a female relative. |
| ~ kissing cousin, kissing kin | a more or less distant relative; familiar enough to be greeted with a kiss. |
| ~ next of kin | the person who is (or persons who are) most closely related to a given person. |
| ~ offspring, progeny, issue | the immediate descendants of a person.; "she was the mother of many offspring"; "he died without issue" |
| ~ second cousin | a child of a first cousin. |
| ~ sib, sibling | a person's brother or sister. |
| ~ better half, married person, partner, spouse, mate | a person's partner in marriage. |
| n. (animal) | 2. congenator, congener, congeneric, relative | an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus). |
| ~ organism, being | a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently. |
| adj. | 3. comparative, relative | estimated by comparison; not absolute or complete.; "a relative stranger" |
| ~ relational | having a relation or being related. |
| adj. | 4. proportional, relative | properly related in size or degree or other measurable characteristics; usually followed by `to'.; "the punishment ought to be proportional to the crime"; "earnings relative to production" |
| ~ proportionate | being in due proportion.; "proportionate representation of a minority group" |
| folk | | |
| n. (group) | 1. common people, folk, folks | people in general (often used in the plural).; "they're just country folk"; "folks around here drink moonshine"; "the common people determine the group character and preserve its customs from one generation to the next" |
| ~ people | (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively.; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience" |
| ~ country people, countryfolk | people raised in or living in a rural environment; rustics. |
| ~ gentlefolk | people of good family and breeding and high social status. |
| ~ grass roots | the common people at a local level (as distinguished from the centers of political activity). |
| ~ home folk | folks from your own home town. |
| ~ ragtag, ragtag and bobtail, riffraff, rabble | disparaging terms for the common people. |
| ~ pleb, plebeian | one of the common people. |
| n. (group) | 2. folk, tribe | a social division of (usually preliterate) people. |
| ~ social group | people sharing some social relation. |
| ~ moiety | one of two basic subdivisions of a tribe. |
| ~ phyle | a tribe of ancient Athenians. |
| n. (group) | 3. family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, phratry, sept | people descended from a common ancestor.; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower" |
| ~ people | members of a family line.; "his people have been farmers for generations"; "are your people still alive?" |
| ~ homefolk | the people of your home locality (especially your own family).; "he wrote his homefolk every day" |
| ~ house | aristocratic family line.; "the House of York" |
| ~ dynasty | a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family. |
| ~ gens, name | family based on male descent.; "he had no sons and there was no one to carry on his name" |
| ~ ancestry, blood line, bloodline, lineage, pedigree, line of descent, stemma, parentage, blood, descent, origin, stock, line | the descendants of one individual.; "his entire lineage has been warriors" |
| n. (communication) | 4. ethnic music, folk, folk music | the traditional and typically anonymous music that is an expression of the life of people in a community. |
| ~ folk ballad, folk song, folksong | a song that is traditionally sung by the common people of a region and forms part of their culture. |
| ~ schottische | music performed for dancing the schottische. |
| ~ popular music, popular music genre | any genre of music having wide appeal (but usually only for a short time). |
| ~ c and w, country and western, country music | a simple style of folk music heard mostly in the southern United States; usually played on stringed instruments. |
| ~ gospel singing, gospel | folk music consisting of a genre of a cappella music originating with Black slaves in the United States and featuring call and response; influential on the development of other genres of popular music (especially soul). |
| ~ square-dance music | music performed for square dancing. |
| inflorescence | | |
| n. (process) | 1. anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, florescence, flowering, inflorescence | the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms. |
| ~ growing, growth, ontogenesis, ontogeny, maturation, development | (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level.; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children" |
| n. (plant) | 2. inflorescence | the flowering part of a plant or arrangement of flowers on a stalk. |
| ~ blossom, bloom, flower | reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts. |
| ~ flower head | a shortened compact cluster of flowers so arranged that the whole gives the effect of a single flower as in clover or members of the family Compositae. |
| ~ ament, catkin | a cylindrical spikelike inflorescence. |
| ~ umbel | flat-topped or rounded inflorescence characteristic of the family Umbelliferae in which the individual flower stalks arise from about the same point; youngest flowers are at the center. |
| ~ corymb | flat-topped or convex inflorescence in which the individual flower stalks grow upward from various points on the main stem to approximately the same height; outer flowers open first. |
| ~ flower cluster | an inflorescence consisting of a cluster of flowers. |
| ~ cyme | more or less flat-topped cluster of flowers in which the central or terminal flower opens first. |
| ~ spike | (botany) an indeterminate inflorescence bearing sessile flowers on an unbranched axis. |
| ~ bract | a modified leaf or leaflike part just below and protecting an inflorescence. |
| tassel | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. tassel | adornment consisting of a bunch of cords fastened at one end. |
| ~ adornment | a decoration of color or interest that is added to relieve plainness. |
| ~ sword knot | an ornamental tassel on the hilt of a sword. |
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