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
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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 John Wesley Powell
How came it that Taylor did not apply the same process to the congeneric question of the freedom of the will?
From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Henry Nelson Coleridge
Isotypical: a genus described from more than one species, all of which are congeneric.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith
The two judgments, that of a man upon himself from within, and that of his beholder upon him from without, are not congeneric.
From The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark A Study with the Text of the Folio of 1623 by George MacDonald
We have evidence that these ancient animals possessed the same senses as their congeneric races now on the globe.
From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Edward Hitchcock
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