relative
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- noun
- /ˈrɛlətɪv/
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- The ape is our closest biological relative.
- wild relatives
You've said that we're much less violent than our close living relatives, the chimps.
- You've said that we're much less violent than our close living relatives, the chimps.
- But this is when they're like ancient relatives of starfish.
- And now the company says scientists have for the first time created induced pluripotent stem cells for the mammoth's closest living relative, Asian elephants.
- Now the thing about hippos is they are the closest relative of the hippo is the whale.
Examples
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It's humbling and beautiful in the same way that meeting our close evolutionary relatives is humbling and beautiful.
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Next Thursday, I'm going to talk to your class about the lungfish, the closest living relative of the tetrapods.
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do you have any living relatives
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Subject history shows no living relatives.
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But now I want to show you our our nearest living relative, and I want to compare her to her.
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Finally, there was no place for her to go; no more relatives left in Detroit to care for her.
Fiction book (1998) -
But if you put them on a phylogenetic tree, then you realize that the closest relative of humans is the chimpanzee.
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As primates, they are relatives of ours, but they are by no means our closest relatives.
Academic text (1990) -
Humans' closest living relatives are chimps who get 97% of their calories from plants and the remaining 3% mostly from insects.
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The ape is our closest biological relative.
Synonyms
A thing that is the same kind or closely related to another
Compounds
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The amount of water in the air compared to the maximum it can hold at that temperature
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How expensive one thing is compared with another, for example coffee and tea
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The number of times something happens compared with the total number of cases
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The largest number of votes for a person running for office that is less than half
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Movement of one object measured from another or from a person watching
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A part of a sentence that gives more information about a noun and starts with who, which, or that
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How heavy a substance is compared with the same volume of water or air
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How fast and in what direction something moves compared with another object
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The mass of an atom compared with one twelfth of a carbon-12 atom
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The mass of all the atoms in one molecule compared with one twelfth of a carbon-12 atom
How Close
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word relative for animals or plants comes from the same Latin root relatus, like relation and relate, meaning 'connected by origin'. So a relative species is one that is 'connected' to another by family or common descent.