cousin

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a child of a person's aunt or uncle, or, more generally, a distant (= not close) relation:

My brother's wife and I both had babies around the same time, so the cousins are very close in age.

distant cousin Many of our distant cousins, whom we hadn't seen for years, came to my sister's wedding.

a member of a group of people with similar origins:

We Americans owe a great deal to our European cousins.

something that is related to or similar to another thing:

cousin of The cardoon is a close cousin of the artichoke.

cousin to The work is a contemporary cousin to Mozart's "Magic Flute".

a child of a person’s aunt or uncle