Postgeniture

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Postgeniture \Post*gen"i*ture\ (?; 135), n. [Pref. post- + L.
     genitura birth, geniture.]
     The condition of being born after another in the same family;
     -- distinguished from primogeniture. [R.] --Sir T. Browne.
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