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Congener

noun

A minor chemical constituent that gives a wine or liquor its distinctive character.

An animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus). Synonyms: congenator, congeneric, relative.

A whole (a thing or person) of the same kind or category as another. "The American shopkeeper differs from his European congener"

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... fully described the leading types of the eggs of these Bulbuls under Molpastes haemorrhous. I shall therefore only here say that the eggs of this species in shape and colour exactly resemble those of its congener, but that as a body they are larger in size; every variety observable in the eggs of the one is, as far as I know, to be met with amongst those of the other. Taking only the eggs of typical birds from Lower Bengal and ...

— The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 • Allan O. Hume

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