Crossword clues for congener
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Congener \Con"ge*ner\ (?; 277), n. [From L. congener. See Congenerous.] A thing of the same genus, species, or kind; a thing allied in nature, character, or action.
The cherry tree has been often grafted on the laurel,
to which it is a congener.
--P. Miller.
Our elk is more polygamous in his habits than any other
deer except his congener, the red deer of Europe.
--Caton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A plant or animal of the same taxonomic genus as another. 2 A person or thing similar in behavior or nature to another. 3 (context chemistry English) Any of a group of structurally-related compounds. 4 Any of several alcohols, other than ethanol, that are found in fermented and distilled alcoholic drinks, and are partially responsible for their flavour and character.
WordNet
n. an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus) [syn: relative, congenator]
Wikipedia
Congener may refer to:
- A thing or person of the same kind as another, or of the same group.
- Congener (biology), organisms within the same genus
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Congener (chemistry), related chemicals, e.g., elements in the same group of the periodic table
- Congener (alcohol), a substance produced during fermentation of alcoholic beverages
In the alcoholic beverages industry, congeners are substances, other than the desired type of alcohol, ethanol, produced during fermentation. These substances include small amounts of chemicals such as methanol and other alcohols (known as fusel alcohols), acetone, acetaldehyde, esters, tannins, and aldehydes (e.g. furfural). Congeners are responsible for most of the taste and aroma of distilled alcoholic beverages, and contribute to the taste of non-distilled drinks. It has been suggested that these substances contribute to the symptoms of a hangover. Congeners are also used by forensic toxicologists to determine what a person drank in a sub-discipline called alcohol congener analysis.
In chemistry, congeners are related chemical substances "related to each other by origin, structure, or function".
Usage examples of "congener".
We have seen that a species may under new conditions of life change its habits, or have diversified habits, with some habits very unlike those of its nearest congeners.
Altogether it is certainly not a want of honesty or of respect to the rights of the congeners which characterizes the barbarian societies of Caucasus.
At any rate it is worthy of note that there are species living a quite isolated life in densely-inhabited regions, while the same species, or their nearest congeners, are gregarious in uninhabited countries.
The cranes are extremely sociable and live in most excellent relations, not only with their congeners, but also with most aquatic birds.
All wait for their tardy congeners, and finally they start in a certain well chosen direction--a fruit of accumulated collective experience--the strongest flying at the head of the band, and relieving one another in that difficult task.
With the Eskimos and their nearest congeners, the Thlinkets, the Koloshes, and the Aleoutes, we find one of the nearest illustrations of what man may have been during the glacial age.
They were maras, a sort of agouti, a little larger than their congeners of tropical countries, regular American rabbits, with long ears, jaws armed on each side with five molars, which distinguish the agouti.
Tajacu, recognizable by their deep color and the absence of those long teeth with which the mouths of their congeners are armed.
Asiatic congeners, that is to say, it measured five feet from the extremity of its head to the beginning of its tail.
These birds soon became accustomed to returning every evening to their new dwelling, and showed more disposition to domesticate themselves than their congeners, the wood-pigeons.
Such are the Eskimos and their congeners in Greenland, Arctic America, and Northern Siberia.
They couldn't tolerate the sugars in beer or wine, or the congeners in whiskey, but chilled vodka seemed to do very nicely for them, if it wasn't mucked up with vermouth or lemon peel.
They parted at the Terminus, where three shrieks of an engine, sounding like merry messages of the damned to their congeners in the anticipatory stench of the cab-droppings above, disconnected sane hearing.
In Russia the small Asiatic cockroach has everywhere driven before it its great congener.
Add a few congeners, couple drops of food coloring, and you've got the finest Chivas Regal a bellboy ever sold you out of a bottle with the tax stamp broken.