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.

  • 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.

  • This last, though less numerous than its congener, seems to range over the whole of the continent, breeding in the extreme north, while it has been obtained also in the Strait of Magellan and the Falkland Islands.

  • Eminently first is a species of nightingale (uguisu), which, though smaller than,its congener of the West, is gifted with exquisitely modulated flute-like notes of considerable range.

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