CONGENER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does congener mean? 

• CONGENER (noun)
  The noun CONGENER has 3 senses:

1. a minor chemical constituent that gives a wine or liquor its distinctive character

2. an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus)

3. a whole (a thing or person) of the same kind or category as another

  Familiarity information: CONGENER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONGENER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A minor chemical constituent that gives a wine or liquor its distinctive character

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("congener" is a kind of...):

chemical; chemical substance (material produced by or used in a reaction involving changes in atoms or molecules)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

congenator; congener; congeneric; relative

Hypernyms ("congener" is a kind of...):

being; organism (a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A whole (a thing or person) of the same kind or category as another

Classified under:

Nouns with no superordinates

Context example:

the American shopkeeper differs from his European congener

Hypernyms ("congener" is a kind of...):

unit; whole (an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity)

 Context examples 

Derivative of noroxymorphone that is the N-cyclopropylmethyl congener of NALOXONE.

(Naltrexone hydrochloride, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

A water soluble congener of tubulozole and a tubulin binding agent with potential antimitotic and antineoplastic activities.

(Erbulozole, NCI Thesaurus)

Doxorubicin, isolated from the bacterium Streptomyces peucetius var. caesius, is the hydroxylated congener of daunorubicin.

(Doxorubicin, NCI Thesaurus)

The hydrochloride salt of a cytarabine congener prodrug with antineoplastic activity.

(Ancitabine Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

A cytarabine congener prodrug with antineoplastic activity.

(Ancitabine, NCI Thesaurus)