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homologized
adjective as in homologous
Example Sentences
Attached to each wrist is a strut, made of bone or calcified cartilage, which cannot simply be homologized with regular wrist or hand bones.
The different parts of the outstretched wings are readily homologized even in details in the two figures.
Parapteron -era: small sclerites, articulated to the dorsal extremity of the episternum, just below the wings; absent on prothorax = the tegulae of Hymenoptera, and patagia of Lepidoptera: have been homologized with the elytra of Coleoptera.
Patagium -ia: in Lepidoptera, those sclerites that cover the base of primaries: often used as synonymous with tegula and squamula, q.v.: assigned by some writers to the pro-, by others to the meso-thorax: homologized with the paraptera of meso-thorax.
As both the earth and women could be fertilized by water they were homologized one with the other.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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