Analogous

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Similar or alike in such a way as to permit the drawing of an analogy.
  • adj. Biology Similar in function but not in structure and evolutionary origin.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Having analogy; corresponding to something else; bearing some resemblance or proportion;—often followed by "to".
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Having analogy; corresponding to something else; bearing some resemblance or proportion; -- often followed by to.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In general, having analogy; corresponding (to something else) in some particular or particulars, while differing in others; bearing some resemblance or proportion: sometimes loosely used for similar.
  • Specifically In chem., closely alike, but differing in some degree as to each of the more prominent characters.
  • In botany, resembling in form but not in plan of structure.
  • In biology, similar physiologically but not anatomically; like in function but not in structure: the opposite of homologous. See analogy, 5.
  • In logic, from Albertus Magnus down to modern writers, applied to terms which are homonymous or equivocal in a special way, namely, those in which the identity of sound is not accidental, but is based upon a trope or upon some other reason.
  • In all senses used with to, sometimes with. Synonyms Correspondent, similar, like.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar
  • adj. corresponding in function but not in evolutionary origin
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    similar   
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    like    correspondent    similar    parallel    correlative    corresponding    cognate    equivalent   
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