sibling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sĭbʹ-lĭng
ipa: /ˈsɪb.lɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈsɪb.lin/
rhymes: -ɪblɪŋ
Forms: form: siblings
Etymology: First use appears c. 1903, a modern revival of Old English sibling (“relative, a relation, kinsman”), equivalent to sib + -ling. Compare Middle English siblynges pl, sib, sibbe (“relative; kinsman”), German Sippe. The term apparently meant merely kin or relative until the 20th century when it was applied in a way that aided the study of genetics, which led to its specialized use. For example, the OED has a citation in 1902 in which sibling must be defined for those who do not know the intended meaning.
Senses: examples: text: None of my siblings are married yet.
glosses: A person who shares a parent; one's brother or sister who one shares a parent with.
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glosses: A node in a data structure that shares its parent with another node.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1990 April 1, P. Hutter et al., “A genetic basis for the inviability of hybrids between sibling species of Drosophila”, in Genetics, volume 124, number 4, pages 909–920:
text: Bush suggested that this difference might represent a case of chromosomal polymorphism or, more likely, sibling species.
ref: 2015 November 26, Lucie Vaníčková et al., “Current knowledge of the species complex Anastrepha fraterculus (Diptera, Tephritidae) in Brazil”, in ZooKeys, volume 540, →DOI, pages 211–237:
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glosses: The most closely related species, or one of several most closely related species when none can be determined to be more closely related.
Derived terms: word: nibling
word: pibling
word: siblicide
word: siblinged
word: siblinghood
word: siblingless
word: siblinglike
word: siblingly
word: siblingship
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word: adoptive sibling
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word: blood sibling
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word: co-sibling
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word: cross-sibling
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word: foster sibling
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word: full-sibling
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word: god-sibling
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word: half-sibling
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word: halfsibling
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word: little sibling
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word: milk sibling
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word: saviour sibling
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word: sibling fucker
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word: sibling-in-law
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word: sibling rivalry
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word: stepsibling
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word: three-quarter sibling
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word: 3/4 sibling