"relatives" in the noun sense
1. relative, relation
a person related by blood or marriage
"police are searching for relatives of the deceased"
"he has distant relations back in New Jersey"
2. relative, congener, congenator, congeneric
an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus)
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