congener

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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.

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.

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

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.

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