Usually means: Cousin from parent's sibling, same-generation.
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  1. parallel cousin: Merriam-Webster
  2. parallel cousin: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. parallel cousin: Wiktionary
  4. parallel cousin: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. parallel cousin: Dictionary.com
  6. Parallel-cousin, Parallel cousin: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. parallel cousin: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. parallel-cousin: Anthropological Terms

Definitions from Wiktionary (parallel cousin)

noun:  (anthropology) The child of one's father's brother or of one's mother's sister; a cousin related via same-gender siblings rather than opposite-gender ones (the latter being a cross-cousin).

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