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descended from a common ancestor but through different lines; "cousins are collateral relatives"; "an indirect descendant of the Stuarts"

situated or running side by side; "collateral ridges of mountains"

accompaniment to something else; "collateral target damage from a bombing run"

descended from a common ancestor but through different lines; "cousins are collateral relatives"; "an indirect descendant of the Stuarts"

situated or running side by side; "collateral ridges of mountains"

accompaniment to something else; "collateral target damage from a bombing run"

Coming from, being on, or directed toward, the side; as, collateral pressure.

Acting in an indirect way.

Related to, but not strictly a part of, the main thing or matter under consideration; hence, subordinate; not chief or principal; as, collateral interest; collateral issues.

Tending toward the same conclusion or result as something else; additional; as, collateral evidence.

Descending from the same stock or ancestor, but not in the same line or branch or one from the other; -- opposed to lineal.

A collateral relative.

Collateral security; that which is pledged or deposited as collateral security.

Side by side; parallel; confirming or supporting, as testimony; incidental; subordinate; protected by additional security, as a loan; descended from the same stock, but in a different line.

Security additional to one's obligation.

Collaterally.

Collaterally.

Side by side: running parallel or together: not direct: descended from the same ancestor, but not directly, as the children of brothers.

A collateral relation.

Collaterally.

Attendant; incidental; confirmatory.

Parallel; bordering; descended from the same ancestor in a different line.

Following side by side; assisting.

Side by side; parallel; descending by parallel lines; accompanying.

Side by side; bundles, as collateral bundle, with xylem and phloem in contact on one side only; fine lateral branches from the axon of a nerve cell.

That which accompanies or proceeds by the side of another.

n. A kinsman or relation.

Side to side ; running parallel ; diffused on either side ; those that stand in equal relation to some an cestor; not direct, not immediate; Concurrent.