germane
ger·mane
adjective
1.
having close kinship and appropriateness
- “he asks questions that are germane and central to the issue”
Origin
A variant form of german (“having the same parents; related”), adapted in this sense in allusions to its use in Shakespeare's Hamlet (see quotations at germaine).
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