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ed by kindred; connected by blood or alliance, particularly by consanguinity; as, persons related in the first or second degree.

The state or condition of being related; relationship; affinity. [R.] Emerson.

Having a mutual or reciprocal relation or parallelism; correlative.

Deposed from the office of prelate.

The European siskin (Carduelis spinus), a small green and yellow finch, related to the goldfinch.

A sucker of the sepia or cuttlefish and related animals.

A genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, A. digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and A. Gregorii, the sour gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and fill…

A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key. [R.] See Attendant keys, under Attendant, a.

Related to, or of the nature of, aërobies; as, aërobiotic plants, which live only when supplied with free oxygen.

Related by marriage; from the same source.

Related or akin by the father's side; also, sprung from the same male ancestor.

Of the same kin; related by blood; -- used of persons; as, the two families are near akin.

It is called also ellwife, ellwhop, branch herring. The name is locally applied to other related species.

ilicate containing a large amount of cerium. It is usually black in color, opaque, and is related to epidote in form and composition.

United; joined; leagued; akin; related. See Ally.

Related to, or derived, ammonia; -- used chiefly as a suffix; as, amic acid; phosphamic acid. Amic acid (Chem.), one of a class of nitrogenized acids somewhat resembling amides.

A fossil cephalopod shell related to the nautilus. There are many genera and species, and all are extinct, the typical forms having existed only in the Mesozoic age, when they were exceedingly numerous. They differ from the nautili in having the margins of the septa very much lobed or plaited, and the siphuncle dorsal.…

Related to, or of the nature of, anaërobies.

A species or genus in one country closely related to a species of the same genus, or a genus of the same group, in another: such species are often called representative species, and such genera, representative genera. Dana.

A mineral closely related to dolomite, but containing iron.