congener
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The latter is a better shaped fish than its congener, can swim more rapidly, and is altogether of a more active habit.
From The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea by Mayne Reid
They require to be so: since an encounter with a full-grown jaguar is but little less dangerous than with his striped congener of the Indian jungles.
From Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt by Johann Baptist Zwecker
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 Mayne Reid
Its smaller congener Sabine’s gull, X. sabinii, is more common, and has been found breeding both in Arctic America and in Siberia, and several examples, chiefly immature birds, have been obtained in the British islands.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
The Guelder Rose does not grow so tall as its congener, twelve feet being about the extreme height to which it attains in a wild state, and ordinarily it is several feet less.
From Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva by Edward Step
This dual capacity distinguishes us from other species which, to learn a new task, need numerous trials accompanied by positive or negative reinforcement signals, without being able to communicate it to their congeners.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 18, 2024
But can these congeners induce true allergic reactions?
From Salon ● Jan. 8, 2024
The type of still will influence the beverages’ final flavor, because pot stills often do not separate the congeners as precisely as column stills do.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 27, 2023
Whatever you think you’ve read about congeners and sulphites and wine before beer, it’s all twaddle.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 1, 2017
In summer they infest the roads and by-ways of Austria, travelling southwards, as winter advances, thus resembling in habit their British congeners.
From Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Walter J. Buck
