Dictionary Entry
homologous
homologous is a 10-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Having the same relative position, proportion, value, or structure. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 19 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Having the same relative position, proportion, value, or structure.
- 2adjective
Corresponding in relative position and proportion.
- 3adjective
Having the same relative proportion or value, as the two antecedents or the two consequents of a proportion.
- 4adjective
Characterized by homology; belonging to the same type or series; corresponding in composition and properties. See Homology, 3.
- 5adjective
Being of the same typical structure; having like relations to a fundamental type to structure; as, those bones in the hand of man and the fore foot of a horse are homologous that correspond in their structural relations, that is, in their relations to the type structure of the fore limb in vertebrates.
- 6adjective
corresponding or similar in position or structure or function or characteristics; especially derived from an organism of the same species
"a homologous tissue graft"
- 7adjective
having the same evolutionary origin but not necessarily the same function
"the wing of a bat and the arm of a man are homologous"
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