bilateral descent

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bilateral descent (usually uncountable, plural bilateral descents)

  1. Descent traced from all biological descendants, regardless of sex and side of the family.
  2. Descent traced from an ancestor, regardless of sex and side of the family of the intervening generations.
    Only by bilateral descent is a boy related to his mother's grandfather.
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