cross-cousin
nounEtymology From cross- + cousin.
1
Anthropology, Human sciences, Sciences The child of one's father's sister or of one's mother's brother; a cousin related via opposite-gender siblings rather than same-gender ones (the latter being a parallel cousin).
- Many societies forbid marriage between parallel cousins, but encourage marriage between cross-cousins or second cross-cousins.
- Derived terms
- cross-cousin marriage, first cross-cousin, second cross-cousin