congener
Example Sentences
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Unlike his congener the brown bear, the grizzly cannot climb a tree, and knowing this I fancied myself safe.
From Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone by Beach, Charles A.
Ye fulsome diving dados, would ye were Extinct as your vocabular congener!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, November 18, 1893 by Various
It is also of a gentler disposition than its congener, smaller in size, and never preys upon other animals.
From Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt by Zwecker, Johann Baptist
But there are some very curious points in the history of the “edolio,” which it does not share with its European congener.
From The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa by Reid, Mayne
It is well known in different portions of Continental Europe, and is frequently figured in contrast with its very poisonous congener, Amanita muscaria, or "False Orange," commonly known as the "Fly Amanita," or "Fly-Killer."
From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Taylor, Thomas
