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biological child

noun

  1. any child conceived rather than adopted by a specified parent, and therefore carrying genes from the parent.



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Over the next few days, Lisa tried to accept the idea she might not have a biological child.

This time, however, testimony suggested a thornier layer to the quarrel: Phillip said the family had learned a few years earlier that the older brother was not Ferguson’s biological child.

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They experience the emotional strain that's par for the course between a father and a daughter, made more confusing by Joel's knowing that Ellie isn’t his biological child.

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The couple's first biological child, Shiloh, was born in Namibia in 2006.

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Five members of Ike’s family, who are also present in the room, do not believe Hope is the couple’s biological child, as Chioma and Ike claim.

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