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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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.
Suffice it to say, that he frankly accepts the inferences derived from the whole course of observation, and contemplates a probable historical connection between congeneric species.
From Darwiniana; Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism by Gray, Asa
Isotypical: a genus described from more than one species, all of which are congeneric.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.
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 MacDonald, George
What it is we already have seen: a material reality, and as such divisible into parts, placed in the world in the midst of a congeneric multitude.
From The Reform of Education by Gentile, Giovanni
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