The alpaca is a cultural symbol its much-prized cousin, the vicuña, is on the country's national shield.
Principato got a break in December thanks to the 30 arrests, which threw up a valuable and unprecedented prize: a cousin who wanted to talk.
A cousin to sturgeon and prized for its roe, paddlefish — named for the shape of their rostrum, or beak — were once found as far north as New York.
A delicately spectral version of their purple cousins, white mulberries possess high levels of antioxidants and are prized for their health benefits and unique taste throughout the Middle East, where they thrive.
Forest elephants are smaller than their savanna cousins and have an alluring, extra-hard pinkish ivory that is especially prized.
A close cousin of the vehicle that figured in the Allied victory in World War II, it is a stalwart example of the kind of structure-baring design so prized by Modernist architects and Minimalist artists.
We see the boys going off to and coming back from school, the attention given to their prizes and exams, cousin Hervey Fisher getting his Balliol scholarship to great rejoicing, and Leslie's distinctions, as retiring editor of the Dictionary of National Biography honorary doctor, and President of the London Library.
Thank goodness, then, for the new Folio prize, originally announced in a whirl of controversy as the Literature prize, Booker's more bookish younger cousin.
Mr. Jacob, raised in Paris in a 1930s version of Proustian bourgeoisie (the Nobel Prize-winning scientist François Jacob is a cousin), writes about his studious upbringing during wartime.
He found the courage to pen The Leopard only when his cousin Lucio won a prize for a book of poetry.
Those awards were designed for people overlooked for prizes named for Ig's distant cousin Alfred Nobel, inventor of TNT.
