a. [f. L. con- together + gener- (genus) race, after L. congener and generic.] Of the same genus, kind, or race; allied in nature or origin.
a. 1834. Coleridge, Lit. Rem., III. 333. The congeneric question of the freedom of the will.
1836. Todd, Cycl. Anat., I. 288/1. The Stork and congeneric birds.
1853. Phillips, Rivers Yorksh., ii. 22. Widdale Fell Group.—Less deeply divided from its congeneric hills.
1880. A. R. Wallace, Isl. Life, 402. A black parrot con-generic with two species that inhabit Madagascar.
So Congenerical a.
1846. in Worcester.
