Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of the same kind, class, or group.
- noun An organism belonging to the same taxonomic genus as another organism.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of the same genus or kind; congeneric.
- noun A thing of the same kind as. or nearly allied to, another; specifically, in botany and zoology, a plant or an animal belonging to the same genus as another or to one nearly allied.
- noun In anatomy, a muscle which acts with another in producing the same movement.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A thing of the same genus, species, or kind; a thing allied in nature, character, or action.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
plant oranimal of the sametaxonomic genus as another. - noun A person or thing similar in behavior or nature to another.
- noun chemistry Any of a group of structurally-related compounds.
- noun Any of several
alcohols , other thanethanol , that are found infermented anddistilled alcoholic drinks , and are partially responsible for theirflavour andcharacter .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a minor chemical constituent that gives a wine or liquor its distinctive character
- noun an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus)
- noun a whole (a thing or person) of the same kind or category as another
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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But the key word out of these studies that I read is the word congener, that's the word you sort of keep in mind and certain alcohols have more congeners than other alcohols.
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A congener is a thing of like nature with another.
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Its congener, Spongiforma thailandica, is very different from SpongeBob SquarePants: it ranges in colour from pale brownish-grey to reddish-brown and smells strongly of coal-tar.
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You have seen a congener of this species as a mystery bird, so it is possible that some of you can identify this bird's taxonomic family, and possibly even its genus.
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Such were “Bakh, bakh” (= euge, before noticed), and “Kakh,” a congener of the Latin Cacus and
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Whether there would be issue and whether such issue would be viable are still disputed points: the produce would add another difficulty to the pseudo-science called psychology, as such mule would have only half a soul and issue by a congener would have a quarter-soul.
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The ways that PBDEs might enter and leave your body depend on the chemical structures of the congener components.
Public Health Statement for Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDEs) 2008
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“Yá dádati”: dádat is an old servant-woman or slave, often applied to a nurse, like its congener the Pers.
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Occurrence and congener profiles of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in environmental samples from coastal British Columnbia, Canada.
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One congener in penta-BDE of note is BDE-47, which often accounts for the highest concentration of PBDEs in human and wildlife tissues.
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November 22, 2009