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congenerous

ADJECTIVE
  1. belonging to the same genus

How To Use congenerous In A Sentence

  • 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
  • Man had never been exactly a mystery to her, but now she felt for the first time the congenerous creature — and she gave in to him. Gänsemännchen. English
  • To be concerned only with things that are congenerous and homogeneous, thereby depriving the artist of his power to manipulate things on a conceptual basis from a third party's standpoint, he becomes prone to extract the naked truth from things from a mode of positive involvement with them.
  • This was to have been shown forth, in wish at least, as somewhat akin to, or congenerous with '_The Doctor_, An Author's Mind : The Book of Title-pages
  • It might be defined likewise an effect, not having its cause in any thing congenerous. Literary Remains, Volume 1
  • See much more learned disquisition on the origin of these evidently congenerous words under the term _Arage_, in Jamieson. Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850
  • It is impermissible to subject human beings to differences in treatment that are inconsistent with their unique and congenerous character.
  • For in order to direct the view aright, it behoves that the beholder should have made himself congenerous and similar to the object beheld. Biographia Literaria
  • A group of the chemically congenerous compounds, named cobalamin, belongs to vitamin B12.
  • You may follow the adventures of a letter through any passage that has particularly pleased you; find it, perhaps, denied a while, to tantalise the ear; find it fired again at you in a whole broadside; or find it pass into congenerous sounds, one liquid or labial melting away into another. Essays in the Art of Writing
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