congener

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

In shape, colour, and many of his habits, the Syrian bear differs essentially from his brown congener; and his dwelling-place—instead of being in forest-covered tracts—is more generally in open ground or among rocks.

From Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt by Zwecker, Johann Baptist

Gymnogongrus has two British species, one much resembling Chondrus crispus, already named, of which it was formerly considered a congener.

From Sea-Weeds, Shells and Fossils by Gray, Peter

Its habits, too, are much the same, so that little can be said of it which does not equally apply to its congener.

From British Birds in their Haunts by Johns, Rev. C. A.

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