congeneric

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Suffice it to say, that he frankly accepts the inferences derived from the whole course of observation, and contemplates a probable historical connection between congeneric species.

From Darwiniana; Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism by Gray, Asa

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

He arrives at this conclusion from a geographical survey of what he would call the "whole field of distribution," and "the probable historical connection between these congeneric species."

From Life: Its True Genesis by Wright, R. W.

This seems congeneric with the Arcturus sparshalli of Mr. Curtis, described in the 7th volume of the British Entomology, folio 336, as a British insect; but there seems doubt of the correctness of this.

From Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 by Grey, George

The two judgments, that of a man upon himself from within, and that of his beholder upon him from without, are not congeneric.

From The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark A Study with the Text of the Folio of 1623 by MacDonald, George