This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

• Lexulous
• Wordscraper
• Wordosaur

adj. Corresponding or similar in position, value, structure, or function.

adj. Biology Similar in structure and evolutionary origin, though not necessarily in function, as the flippers of a seal and the hands of a human.

adj. Immunology Relating to the correspondence between an antigen and the antibody produced in response to it.

adj. Genetics Having the same morphology and linear sequence of gene loci as another chromosome.

adj. Chemistry Belonging to or being a series of organic compounds each successive member of which differs from the preceding member by a constant increment, especially by an added CH2 group.

adj. Showing a degree of correspondence or similarity.

adj. Corresponding in relative position and proportion.

adj. Having the same relative proportion or value, as the two antecedents or the two consequents of a proportion.

adj. Characterized by homology; belonging to the same type or series; corresponding in composition and properties. See Homology, 3.

adj. Being of the same typical structure; having like relations to a fundamental type to structure; as, those bones in the hand of man and the fore foot of a horse are homologous that correspond in their structural relations, that is, in their relations to the type structure of the fore limb in vertebrates.

Having the same relative position, proportion, value, or structure; having correspondence or likeness.

In pathology, noting a neoplasm composed of tissues of the same type as those of the part from which it springs: distinguished from heterologous.

adj. corresponding or similar in position or structure or function or characteristics; especially derived from an organism of the same species

adj. having the same evolutionary origin but not necessarily the same function

"Professor Heer has not ventured to identify any of this vast assemblage of Miocene plants and insects with living species, so far at least as to assign to them the same specific names, but he presents us with a list of what he terms homologous forms, which are so like the living ones that he supposes the one to have been derived genealogically from the others."

homological    homologic   

heterologous   

homologous determinant   

homologue    homologize    homology    autologous   

homology   

homologous series    homologous blood donation