congeneric
Americanadjective
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Also congenerous of the same kind or genus.
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offering a group of closely related services.
a congeneric investment company.
noun
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a congeneric company, service, or the like.
adjective
Etymology
Origin of congeneric
Example Sentences
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The seats, however, of barbarous hordes, in a waste and almost desert country, are seldom stationary for any continuance; and the Ballogees and Sewees are probably congeneric tribes, much intermixed, and having no fixed boundaries.
Gioloco, which he states “may possibly belong to this group, notwithstanding its reference to the Mission of San Francisco,” really is congeneric with the vocabularies assigned by Latham to the Mendocinan family.
From Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 1-142 by Powell, John Wesley
The point to be made here is simply this: If the species in question are to be considered congeneric then it might reasonably be expected that they would display some similarity in nidification and egg-laying.
From Jaw Musculature of the Mourning and White-winged Doves by Merz, Robert L.
Two genera of pocket gophers should be congeneric.
From An Annotated Check List of the Mammals of Michoac?n, M?xico by Bernardo Villa R.
As a matter of fact Chicken-pox is of congeneric origin with small-pox, with which, in a very much milder degree, it has various features in common.
From Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration by Dechmann, Louis
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