Cousin

A cousin is a relative who is the child of a parent sibling, more precisely called a first cousin, whose own parent is in turn an aunt or uncle. In the broader kinship system used in English-speaking cultures, cousins are further described by degree, which counts generations back to the most recent common ancestor, and by removal, which counts the difference in generation between two cousins who do not belong to the same generation. Because the single word cousin covers both degrees and removals, a person can have far more cousins than any other kind of relative, and genealogists can sometimes trace hundreds of such relationships across centuries. Legal and medical systems have developed their own precise classifications, treating a first cousin, for example, as a third-degree relative. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/