Homologue

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Something homologous; a homologous organ or part.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Something homologous; a homologous organ or part, chemical compound or a chromosome.
  • n. A word shared by two languages or dialects.
  • n. One of a group of similar DNA sequences that share a common ancestry.
  • n. A member of a homologous series
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. That which is homologous to something else
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. That which is homologous; something having the same relative position, proportion, value, or structure.
    • Word Usage
    "The ring of the third division is the "homologue" of the ring of the fifth, the appendage of the former is the homologue of the appendage of the latter."
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