The Collaborative International Dictionary
Homologue \Hom"o*logue\, n. [Cf. F. homologue. See Homologous.] That which is homologous to something else; as, the corresponding sides, etc., of similar polygons are the homologues of each other; the members or terms of an homologous series in chemistry are the homologues of each other; one of the bones in the hand of man is the homologue of that in the paddle of a whale.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Something homologous; a homologous organ or part, chemical compound or a chromosome. 2 (context linguistics English) A word shared by two languages or dialects. 3 (context genetics English) One of a group of similar DNA sequences that share a common ancestry. 4 (context organic chemistry English) A member of a homologous series
Usage examples of "homologue".
A filament was fixed to the upright basal part, higher up than before, close beneath the lowest scalelike process or homologue of a leaf.
It is a report drawn up nominally by Colonel Auger but in fact by the far more brilliant Dutourd for your homologue in Paris, showing the present state of their military intelligence network in the eastern part of the Peninsula, including Gibraltar, with appreciation of the agents, details of payment, and so on.
It should, however, be borne in mind that leaves and their homologues, as well as flowerpeduncles, have gained this power, in innumerable instances, independently of inheritance from any common parent form.
Not the actual people, mind you—though I’d love to rob a few graves and sift bones for genes suitable for cloning—but homologues made from the records they left in life, written up in nucleic acids by yours truly, and given the breath of life.
So it employed their lower homologues and in that manner successfully produced an almost identical model.