familial
adjective/fəˈmɪliəl/
/fəˈmɪliəl/
[only before noun]- (formal) related to or typical of a family
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- (medical) (of diseases, conditions, etc.) affecting several members of a family
- familial left-handedness
Word Originearly 20th cent.: from French, from Latin familia ‘family’.
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