adj. Of or pertaining to congeners (organisms of the same genus)
n. Alternative form of congener.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Belonging to the same genus; allied in origin, nature, or action; of or pertaining to a congener.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Being of the same kind; specifically, in botany and zoology, belonging to the same genus or nearly allied; being congeners.
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adj. belonging to the same genus
n. an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus)
Word Usage
"Carpenter argues in his new paper that, in fact, A. fragillimus seems to have differed from A. altus in a number of anatomical details, and that the two might not have been congeneric after all."