full-blooded
English
Alternative forms
- fullblooded
Adjective
- Of purebred ancestry.
- 2023 May 16, Maud Newton, “Blending Native History and Myth Into Heartfelt Memoir”, in The New York Times[1], archived from the original on 18 June 2023:
- Blood quantum rules — which began as a colonizer practice designed to limit tribal citizenship but were later adopted by some Native peoples as a means of preserving cultural identity — require the tribe’s members to be at least one-eighth S’Klallam and to have at least one full-blooded S’Klallam ancestor.
- Having a florid or ruddy complexion.
- Hearty or lusty.
Synonyms
- pedigree
- pedigreed
- purebred
- pure-breed
- thoroughbred
Derived terms
- full-bloodedness
Translations
of purebred ancestry
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