congeneric

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The seats, however, of barbarous hordes, in a waste and almost desert country, are seldom stationary for any continuance; and the Ballogees and Sewees are probably congeneric tribes, much intermixed, and having no fixed boundaries.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert

Suffice it to say, that he frankly accepts the inferences derived from the whole course of observation, and contemplates a probable historical connection between congeneric species.

From Darwiniana; Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism by Gray, Asa

We have evidence that these ancient animals possessed the same senses as their congeneric races now on the globe.

From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Hitchcock, Edward

This marked difference of habit between congeneric species so closely allied as the two Bustards is very curious.

From Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Buck, Walter J.

He arrives at this conclusion from a geographical survey of what he would call the "whole field of distribution," and "the probable historical connection between these congeneric species."

From Life: Its True Genesis by Wright, R. W.