half-blood

See also: half blood

English

Etymology

From half- +‎ blood.

Adjective

half-blood (not comparable)

  1. Related by sharing descent from one parent.

Noun

half-blood (plural half-bloods)

  1. Alternative form of half blood.
    • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island:
      It was just at sundown when we cast anchor in a most beautiful land-locked gulf, and were immediately surrounded by shore boats full of Negroes and Mexican Indians and half-bloods selling fruits and vegetables and offering to dive for bits of money.
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