What does "ordinally disparate cousins" mean?
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What does "ordinally disparate cousins" from "various soricine great-aunts and -uncles and ordinally disparate cousins" mean?

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What does "ordinally disparate cousins" mean?
Hi, 
What does "ordinally disparate cousins" from "various soricine great-aunts and -uncles and ordinally disparate cousins" mean?

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It means cousins that are far enough removed that you can't really tell what the order of the relation is, i.e. 1st cousins, 2nd cousins, 3rd cousins etc.