Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Being of the same kind; specifically, in botany and zoology, belonging to the same genus or nearly allied; being congeners.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Belonging to the same genus; allied in origin, nature, or action; of or pertaining to a congener.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
congeners (organisms of the samegenus ) - noun Alternative form of
congener .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective belonging to the same genus
- noun an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus)
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Examples
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Carpenter argues in his new paper that, in fact, A. fragillimus seems to have differed from A. altus in a number of anatomical details, and that the two might not have been congeneric after all.
Archive 2007-01-01 Darren Naish 2007
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Carpenter argues in his new paper that, in fact, A. fragillimus seems to have differed from A. altus in a number of anatomical details, and that the two might not have been congeneric after all.
Biggest sauropod ever (part…. II) Darren Naish 2007
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No new taxa have been mentioned in the reports on the new Svalbard finds - the only generic name used was Kimmerosaurus, a plesiosaur discovered in Dorset and named in the 1980s, and it is inferred that the animals are congeneric with British Kimmeridge Clay marine reptiles.
BBC News 24 (again) Darren Naish 2006
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NOT because detailed, careful work has shown that the taxa really can be regarded as conspecific or congeneric.
Archive 2006-03-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Incisivosaurus – closely related to, and possibly congeneric with, Protarchaeopteryx – has a reduced compliment of teeth, all of which are restricted to the anterior parts of the jaws, and two enlarged, bunny-like incisiform teeth project from each premaxilla (image at top: widely available on the web).
Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Incisivosaurus – closely related to, and possibly congeneric with, Protarchaeopteryx – has a reduced compliment of teeth, all of which are restricted to the anterior parts of the jaws, and two enlarged, bunny-like incisiform teeth project from each premaxilla (image at top: widely available on the web).
The war on parasites: an oviraptorosaur’s eye view Darren Naish 2006
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In both cases, the fossil taxon proved to have osteocalcin sequences that were, firstly, identical to those of its congeneric living relative (B. bison and H. sapiens respectively), and, secondly, distinctly different from those of related genera (Bos in the case of Bison, and Pan, Gorilla and Pongo in the case of Homo).
Archive 2006-03-01 Darren Naish 2006
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The grouping of the Pink-headed duck as the sister-taxon of the Red-crested pochard Netta rufina (both species down at the base of Aythyini within the stem pochard clade) led Livezey to argue that the two should be regarded as congeneric.
Archive 2006-11-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Although many of these trees are congeneric with species that are important in European forests, the taxonomic diversity within most of these genera is significantly higher in Central China than Europe.
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The grouping of the Pink-headed duck as the sister-taxon of the Red-crested pochard Netta rufina (both species down at the base of Aythyini within the stem pochard clade) led Livezey to argue that the two should be regarded as congeneric.
The Madagascar pochard returns Darren Naish 2006
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