congeneric
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We have evidence that these ancient animals possessed the same senses as their congeneric races now on the globe.
From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Hitchcock, Edward
There is no reason why these two birds should be considered congeneric, except a general similarity in colour and habits.
From The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 by Hume, Allan Octavian
This marked difference of habit between congeneric species so closely allied as the two Bustards is very curious.
From Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Buck, Walter J.
Gioloco, which he states “may possibly belong to this group, notwithstanding its reference to the Mission of San Francisco,” really is congeneric with the vocabularies assigned by Latham to the Mendocinan family.
From Indian Linguistic Families Of America, North Of Mexico Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 1-142 by Powell, John Wesley
The seats, however, of barbarous hordes, in a waste and almost desert country, are seldom stationary for any continuance; and the Ballogees and Sewees are probably congeneric tribes, much intermixed, and having no fixed boundaries.
