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名詞

cross-sibling (plural cross-siblings)

1. (anthropology) An opposite-sex sibling or parallel cousin.
   • 1998, Charles William Nuckolls, Culture: A Problem That Cannot Be Solved, page 65:

     Ifaluk society even forbids smoking in the presence of one's cross-siblings, because it involves movements and gestures with sexual connotations.

2. (neologism) The half-sibling of one's half-sibling; a person with whom one shares a half-sibling, but no parents.
   • 2013 December 28, Janelle Butterfield, “I bonded with my cross-sister – we share half-brothers”, in The Guardian‎, archived from the original on 2013-12-29:

     As cross-siblings we're not in any way bound to each other; our relationship is optional, we don't have to get on – we just do.

参考

• cross-cousin