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Definition of Congenerical
1. Adjective. Belonging to the same genus.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Congenerical
Literary usage of Congenerical
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1839)
"Instead of that comes a list of congenerical terms, which list, being in different
places different, is in some places incomplete. In the same act occurs, ..."
2. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York by New York Academy of Sciences (1867)
"... under surface differ throughout, while the two species are plainly congenerical.
... is closely allied to, and strictly congenerical with the European ..."
3. Genera Lichenum: An Arrangement of the North American Lichens by Edward Tuckerman (1872)
"The lichens brought together in Alectoria, Nyl., though sufficiently congruous
in habit, and recognized as congenerical by Fries and by ..."
4. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1884)
"... with which our D. fallax is congenerical, the terra .Ifoma is incorrectly used
for this latter form. ..."
5. British Bees: An Introduction to the Study of the Natural History and by William Edward Shuckard (1866)
"... species congenerical with our honey-bee, but sufficiently differing. As I have
before noticed, the species of this genus greatly more resemble each ..."
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