Congener Synonyms

kŏnjə-nər
Something closely resembling or analogous to something else
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. analogue
  2. correlate
  3. correlative
  4. correspondent
  5. counterpart
  6. match
  7. parallel
An animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. relative
  2. congenator
  3. congeneric

Congener Sentence Examples

  • The wild boar (shishi or si-no-shishi) does not differ appreciably from its European congener.

  • In habits it is very similar to its congener of the Old World, and in winter it migrates to the Antilles and to Central and South America.

  • But the uterine gills soon wither and are shed, and are replaced by other gills differing in no respect from those of its congener.

  • This is the case of the bullfinch of the more western of these islands (Pyrrhula murina), the male of which, instead of the ruddy breast of its well-known congener (P. vulgaris), has that part of a sober mouse-colour.

  • Like its Cape congener it occasionally partakes of honey, and is often destructive to poultry.

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