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homologized

adjective as in homologous

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Attached to each wrist is a strut, made of bone or calcified cartilage, which cannot simply be homologized with regular wrist or hand bones.

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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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