sibling

名词 n.
中文释义
发音 sĭbʹ-lĭng

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who shares a parent; one's brother or sister who one shares a parent with.
    — None of my siblings are married yet.
  2. A node in a data structure that shares its parent with another node.
  3. The most closely related species, or one of several most closely related species when none can be determined to be more closely related.
    — D. simulans, D. mauritiana and D. sechellia (which we will call “the siblings” when we do not need to distinguish among them) have homosequential polytene chromosome banding patterns differing from those of D. melanogaster by one long inversion on chromosome arm 3R and a few much smaller inversions.

词形变化

siblings plural

词汇关系

衍生词
biosibling dibling intersibling multisibling nephling nibling niefling nonsibling pibling pseudosibling sibcest siblicide siblinged siblinghood siblingless siblinglike siblingly siblingship adoptive sibling blood sibling co-sibling cross-sibling foster sibling full-sibling god-sibling half-sibling halfsibling little sibling milk sibling my sibling in Christ saviour sibling sibling fucker sibling-in-law sibling rivalry sibling species stepsibling three-quarter sibling 3/4 sibling

词源

First use appears c. 1903, a modern revival of Old English sibling (“relative, a relation, kinsman”), equivalent to sib + -ling. Compare Middle English siblynges pl, sib, sibbe (“relative; kinsman”), German Sippe. The term apparently meant merely kin or relative until the 20th century when it was applied in a way that aided the study of genetics, which led to its specialized use. For example, the OED has a citation in 1902 in which sibling must be defined for those who do not know the intended meaning.
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