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

1. adjective. Having the same relative position, proportion, value, or structure.
2. adjective. Corresponding in relative position and proportion.
3. adjective. Having the same relative proportion or value, as the two antecedents or the two consequents of a proportion.
4. adjective. Characterized by homology; belonging to the same type or series; corresponding in composition and properties. See Homology, 3.
5. adjective. 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.
6. adjective. corresponding or similar in position or structure or function or characteristics; especially derived from an organism of the same species

   "a homologous tissue graft"

7. adjective. 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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