Nostrils and blowholes are homologous.
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Homologous
//həˈmɒləɡəs//
Synonyms for "homologous" (27 found)
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6 entriescoordinate
4 entriesderived
14 entrieshas context
1 entriesrelated to
6 entriessimilar
3 entriesTranslations
28 translations across 9 languages.
Bulgarian
3 entries- съответен adj (showing a degree of correspondence)
- хомоложен adj ((biology) corresponding to a similar structure in another life form)
- хомоложен adj ((chemistry) belonging to a series of aliphatic organic compounds)
Czech
1 entries- homologní adj ((genetics) having the same morphology as another chromosome)
Finnish
4 entries- homologinen adj ((biology) corresponding to a similar structure in another life form)
- homologinen adj ((chemistry) belonging to a series of aliphatic organic compounds)
- homologinen adj ((genetics) having the same morphology as another chromosome)
- samankaltainen adj (showing a degree of correspondence)
French
4 entries- homologue adj (showing a degree of correspondence)
- homologue adj ((biology) corresponding to a similar structure in another life form)
- homologue adj ((chemistry) belonging to a series of aliphatic organic compounds)
- homologue adj ((genetics) having the same morphology as another chromosome)
German
4 entries- homolog adj (showing a degree of correspondence)
- homolog adj ((biology) corresponding to a similar structure in another life form)
- homolog adj ((chemistry) belonging to a series of aliphatic organic compounds)
- homolog adj ((genetics) having the same morphology as another chromosome)
Greek
3 entries- ομόλογος adj (showing a degree of correspondence)
- ομόλογος adj ((biology) corresponding to a similar structure in another life form)
- ομόλογος adj ((genetics) having the same morphology as another chromosome)
Portuguese
4 entries- homólogo adj (showing a degree of correspondence)
- homólogo adj ((biology) corresponding to a similar structure in another life form)
- homólogo adj ((chemistry) belonging to a series of aliphatic organic compounds)
- homólogo adj ((genetics) having the same morphology as another chromosome)
Romanian
1 entries- omolog adj (showing a degree of correspondence)
Spanish
4 entries- homólogo adj (showing a degree of correspondence)
- homólogo adj ((biology) corresponding to a similar structure in another life form)
- homólogo adj ((chemistry) belonging to a series of aliphatic organic compounds)
- homólogo adj ((genetics) having the same morphology as another chromosome)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
Methane is a homologous compound.
Source: tatoeba (12338128)
The move from the structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power.
Source: tatoeba (12882500)
Of equiangle triangles, the ſides that are about equall angles are proportionall, and the ſides that ſubtend the equall angles are homologous.
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