congener

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They require to be so: since an encounter with a full-grown jaguar is but little less dangerous than with his striped congener of the Indian jungles.

From Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt by Zwecker, Johann Baptist

The frond of Sphenopteris bifida was of a more simple form than that of its larger congener, and not a little resembled a living fern of New Zealand, Cœnopteris vivipara.

From The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Miller, Hugh

Although published information on T. ornata is scant, a considerable amount of information is available concerning its congener, T. carolina.

From Natural History of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata Agassiz by Legler, John M.

Its habits, too, are much the same, so that little can be said of it which does not equally apply to its congener.

From British Birds in their Haunts by Johns, Rev. C. A.

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.