Definitions
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Word origin
From Middle English kyn, from Old English cynn (“kind, sort, rank”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuni, from Proto-Germanic *kunją (“race, generation, descent”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁yom, from *ǵenh₁- (“to produce”).
Used in a sentence
“the starfish and its kin the sea urchin”
“c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers You are of kin, and so must be a friend to their persons.”
“Based on the number of teeth ammonites had—nine—it's believed that their closest living kin are octopuses.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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