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Congener

noun
1.
A minor chemical constituent that gives a wine or liquor its distinctive character.
2.
An animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus).  Synonyms: congenator, congeneric, relative.
3.
A whole (a thing or person) of the same kind or category as another.  "The American shopkeeper differs from his European congener"





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"Congener" Quotes from Famous Books



... this one. Except when he is gorged with eating, he will never allow the hunter to approach within shot; and even then, his thick heavy plumage renders him most difficult to be killed. His wings are full and long, and his flight is most graceful and easy, not unlike that of his congener the turkey-buzzard. ...
— The Boy Hunters • Captain Mayne Reid
... habitual intercourse, the African mind and character, I felt myself prepared to discriminate and decide upon the probability of their statements. Besides, being familiar with the history and habits of its interesting congener ('Trog. niger', Geoff.), I was able to separate their accounts of the two animals, which, having the same locality and a similarity of habit, are confounded in the minds of the mass, especially as but few—such as traders to the interior and huntsmen—have ...
— Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature • Thomas H. Huxley


Words linked to "Congener" :   chemical, organism, relative, congenator, being, chemical substance, unit, whole


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