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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a whole (a thing or person) of the same kind or category as another
lard was also used, though its congener, butter, was more frequently employed
the American shopkeeper differs from his European congener - a minor chemical constituent that gives a wine or liquor its distinctive character
How To Use congener In A Sentence
- In this study, two types of measurement models were assessed, namely one-factor congeneric models and multi-factor models.
- Detection rates and wet weight concentrations varied widely for organochlorine pesticides and PCB congeners.
- A few kilometers outside the Park and summit area, congenerics found include the legume Adenocarpus foliosus, the bugloss Echium virescens and the daisy Argynantemum frutescens. Teide National Park, Spain
- Vodka has very few congeners and bourbon has quite a bit.
- Hippocampus severnsi is distinguished from congeners in having a combination of: extremely small size (height 13 mm, standard length 15 mm); 12 trunk rings; 27 tail rings; reduced ossification of inferior and ventral trunk ridges; 14 dorsal fin rays; 10 pectoral fin rays; anal fin small or absent; medium length snout which lacks a bulbous tip; raised, angular coronet; single gill opening on midline directly behind coronet supported by raised cleithral bone; scattered tubercles on trunk and tail; predominant colour dark brown (sometimes slightly marbled) with large, bright red patch covering dorsolateral surfaces of trunk rings 1-4; tiny white dots scattered all over; pale posterior section of tail with dark transverse bands. Practical Fishkeeping news (RSS)
- Dark-coloured drinks, such as brandy, red wine and whisky, contain toxic additives called congeners, formed during fermentation.
- It can be distinguished from congeners in having a combination of: postanal length 36·6-44·8 % standard length; pectoral-fin length 14·4-25·9% head length; 34-38 dorsal spines; 42-46 caudal vertebrae; 78-83 total vertebrae; brown background colour without or with only a limited and scattered dark brown reticulate pattern. Practical Fishkeeping
- Other species also may refrain from calling, especially if they live in noisy environments, are likely to attract predators, or lack sympatric congeners with which they might hybridize.
- When we see the _helleborus foetidus_ and _helleborus niger_ blowing at Christmas, the _helleborus hyemalis_ in January, and the _helleborus viridis_ as soon as ever it emerges out of the ground, we do not wonder, because they are kindred plants that we expect should keep pace the one with the other; but other congenerous vegetables differ so widely in their time of flowering, that we cannot but admire. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2
- Its congeners and derivatives exhibit pronounced biological activity as strong antiviral agents and as antineoplastic drugs.
