[n] an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus)
[n] a person related by blood or marriage; "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey"
[adj] not absolute or complete; "a relative stranger"
[adj] properly related in size or degree or other measurable characteristics; usually followed by `to'; "punishment oughtt to be proportional to the crime"; "earnings relative to production"