congener
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Ye fulsome diving dados, would ye were Extinct as your vocabular congener!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, November 18, 1893 by Various
The Bornean bear is also the smallest of the family—in size, being even less than his near congener, the Malayan bear; though resembling the latter in many particulars.
From Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt by Zwecker, Johann Baptist
Unlike his congener the brown bear, the grizzly cannot climb a tree, and knowing this I fancied myself safe.
From Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone by Beach, Charles A.
But there are some very curious points in the history of the “edolio,” which it does not share with its European congener.
From The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa by Reid, Mayne
Its bill, also, is smaller and less powerful than that of its congener.
From The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa by Reid, Mayne
