congener

• Even the woman of the world looks with approbation upon the doings of a congener, when they do not come into collision with her own; even the everyday married lady bends her head confidentially towards her double, as they sit side by side, and rises from the tęte-ŕ-tęte charmed and edified: the managing partner alone is solitary and unsocial. —  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 462 Volume 18, New Series, November 6, 1852
• Its congener, the agouti_, affects the arid sterile plains of Patagonia, while the biscacha is most met with on the fertile pampas further north; more especially along the borders of those far-famed thickets of tall thistles--forests they might almost be called--upon the roots of which it is said to feed. —  Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco
• Not only has the Polar bear proved to be a very different animal from his brown congener, but other species have turned up in remote quarters of the globe: until the list of these interesting quadrupeds has been extended to the number of at least a dozen distinct species--differing not only in size, shape, and colour, but also in many more essential characteristics. —  Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys
• More probably its nobler congener, the jaguar, which is also found in Mexico, is the animal that held this distinction in the land of Anahuac In Central and South America there are a great many species of striped and spotted cats, known generally as tiger cats. —  Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys
• The written natural history of the beaver is usually that of the American species; not that this differs materially from his European congener, but simply because it has been more extensively and accurately observed. —  Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys

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