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congeneric, a.|kɒndʒɪˈnɛrɪk| [f. L. con- together + gener- (genus) race, after L. congener and generic.] Of the same genus, kind, or race; allied in nature or origin. Also as n.
a1834Coleridge Lit. Rem. III. 333 The congeneric question of the freedom of the will. 1836Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 288/1 The Stork and congeneric birds. 1853Phillips Rivers Yorksh. ii. 22 Widdale Fell Group.—Less deeply divided from its congeneric hills. 1880A. R. Wallace Isl. Life 402 A black parrot con-generic with two species that inhabit Madagascar. 1965Sunday Times 23 May 50/4 Vodka..has virtually no congenerics. So congeˈnerical a.
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