Meanings
comparative more homogenous · superlative most homogenous
- biologyHaving the same genetic structure; exhibiting homogeny.
It is quite possible to have, on the one hand, developmental homogeny between parts which are not ancestrally homogenous, and, on the other, to have ancestral homogeny between parts which are not developmentally homogenous.
1870 August, St. George Mivart, “On the Use of the Term “Homology.” ”, in The Annals and Magazine of Natural History [Fourth series], volume 6, number 32, page 116Synonyms: homologous
- alternativeAlternative form of homogeneous (“having the same composition”).
A term coined by the French New Right intellectual, Alain de Benoist, ethnopluralism stipulates the “equivalency of homogenous peoples in their indigenous territories.”
2021, Christian Joppke, Neoliberal Nationalism: Immigration and the Rise of the Populist Right, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 47
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveHaving the same genetic structure; exhibiting homogeny.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectiveall of the same or similar kind or nature
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