NOUN
- an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus)
ADJECTIVE
- belonging to the same genus
How To Use congeneric In A Sentence
- In this study, two types of measurement models were assessed, namely one-factor congeneric models and multi-factor models.
- 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
- For example, the zebrafinch is a highly communal bird, but the congeneric violet-eared waxbill is highly asocial.
- Three decapod species are congeneric with extant species known from outer shelf and slope habitats documenting an onshore-offshore pattern of ecological preference.
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- I have pointed out the existence in opium of a convulsive poison congeneric with brucia. The Opium Habit
