A large Telephora was very common, and had the usual propensity of its congeners for blood; lamellicorns were also abundant.
The nearest congeners of man, the quadrumana, monkeys and apes, are all catarrhine in the Old World, and all platyrhine in America.
The owl is usually looked upon as a night-bird, and in Southern latitudes it is rarely seen by day; but the owls of the Northern regions differ from their congeners in this respect.
D'Orbigny, who discovered this species in Uruguay, and found it also near Buenos Ayres, remarks that it lives in pairs in the thorny bushes, and resembles itscongeners in habits.
Indeed the vicuna is more deer-like than any other animal except the antelope--much more so than its congeners the llama, alpaca, or guanaco.
His tail feathers are twenty-four in number; but there is a material difference between him and his congeners in the arrangement of the windpipe.
On its banks hung numerous rhizomas, sorts of mangroves, essentially distinct from their congeners of India.
As several hundred years elapsed between the separation of the Tuscaroras from their congeners and their return, it affords some evidence of permanence in the existence of a gens.
The Arickarees, whose village is near that of the Minnitarees, are the nearest congeners of the Pawnees, and the same difficulty occurred with them.
When the Latins, and their congeners the Sabellians, the Oscans and the Umbrians, entered the Italian peninsula probably as one people, they were in possession of domestic animals, and probably cultivated cereals and plants.
Sand-martins differ from their congeners in the diminutiveness of their size, and in their colour, which is what is usually called a mouse-colour.
They seem not to be of a sociable turn, never with us congregating with their congeners in the autumn.
House-martins ate distinguished from that congeners by having that legs coveted with soft downy feathers down to their toes.
This hirundo differs widely from its congeners in laying invariably but two eggs at a time, which are milk-white, long, and peaked at the small end; whereas the other species lay at each brood from four to six.
Both male and female are distinguished from their congeners by the length and forkedness of their tails.
It is past all doubt that swifts can breed but once, since they withdraw in a short time after the flight of their young, and some time before their congenersbring out their second brood.
Swifts are very anomalous in many particulars, dissenting from all their congeners not only in the number of their young, but in breeding but once in a summer; whereas all the other British hirundines breed invariably twice.
Towards the close of the interglacial period the land became submerged to a considerable extent, and species of arctic shells lived over the sites of the drowned land where the mammoth and its congeners had flourished.
Now in 2020 and its congeners we have found every one of these titles, save only that relating to the thunder.
The monitor of New Holland is specifically distinct from the Indian species; these latter, again, from the African, and all from their congeners in the new world.
The kangaroo and most of its congeners show an extraordinary disproportion of the hind limbs to the fore part of the body.
On the Santa Cruz coast, and in small groups near Carmel, grows the tan bark oak, not a true oak, but of the genus Pasania, whose nearest surviving congeners are no nearer than Siam.
At this latter season the osprey or "fish-hawk" comes to the bay and the still mountain tarns, adding wildness to the scenes which his congenershave left never to return.
Like its congeners it forms a delicate morsel to the gourmet.
The German has excelled his congeners at the business in the opinion of modern men solely for the reason that among the Germans the trade of the spy is not accounted more dishonourable than any other.
And Stieber's congeners were as a rule no worse and no better than himself, the only difference being that the German held a larger stage on which to enact his rôle and had correspondingly greater opportunities.
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.
Our swallow and its congeners have an almost cosmopolitan range, summering in the Northern and wintering in the Southern Hemisphere or comparatively near to the Equator in the Northern.
It is a large handsome bird, and differs from its congenersin being gregarious, and in never perching on trees or entering woods.
The Anakan is altogether more slenderly built than any of its congeners with which we are acquainted, and its colours are less brilliant.
It exceeds most of its congeners in size, the length of its body being from seven to eight inches, its breadth fifteen to seventeen inches, the wing five and a quarter inches, and the tail two and a half inches.
Jerdon tells us that the name given to this species has been entirely misapplied, as many of its congeners rival it in the brilliant gloss upon their coats.
In size it is inferior to any of its congeners as yet described; it is, moreover, distinguished from them by the delicacy of its beak and by the less remarkable development of the plumes with which its sides are adorned.
Although I had hunted its wild congeners on the prairies of Texas, it proved the swiftest thing in mustang shape I had ever followed, and I soon began to doubt my capacity to overtake it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "congeners" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
