congener
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The great wolf is also found there, and his lesser and more cowardly congener, the coyote; but no more bears—grizzly or other—nor sign of them.
From The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora by Reid, Mayne
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
Other species of Lycoperdon have been eaten when young, and we have been assured by those who have made the experiment, that they are scarcely inferior to their larger congener.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)
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
The Guelder Rose does not grow so tall as its congener, twelve feet being about the extreme height to which it attains in a wild state, and ordinarily it is several feet less.
From Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva by Step, Edward
