womb-brother

English

Etymology

From womb +‎ brother.

Noun

womb-brother (plural womb-brothers or womb-brethren)

1. A brother uterine.
   • 2012, David Gross, Lord of Stormweather: Sembia: Gateway to the Realms - Book 7:

     Only womb-brothers could look so much alike, and Thamalon had been present at Tamlin's birth.

   • 2012, Tim Clarkson, The Picts: A History:

     Father to son inheritance is a key feature of patrilineal succession but is often absent from matrilineal systems where a man is normally succeeded by the son of his sister or by his own womb-brother.

   • 2015, Robert J. Schreiter, Mission in the Third Millennium:

     An Anglican bishop and a Chief Imam could be womb-brothers in Africa.

Synonyms

• uterine brother