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noun

Analogue n.

That which is analogous to, or corresponds with, some other thing. "The vexatious tyranny of the individual despot meets its analogue in the insolent tyranny of the many."

(Philol.) A word in one language corresponding with one in another; an analogous term; as, the Latin "pater" is the analogue of the English "father."

(Nat. Hist.)

(a)

An organ which is equivalent in its functions to a different organ in another species or group, or even in the same group; as, the gill of a fish is the analogue of a lung in a quadruped, although the two are not of like structural relations.

(b)

A species in one genus or group having its characters parallel, one by one, with those of another group.

(c)

A species or genus in one country closely related to a species of the same genus, or a genus of the same group, in another: such species are often called representative species, and such genera, representative genera.

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— Donatello • David Lindsay, Earl of Crawford

... English analogue to Rabelais is undoubtedly Dean Swift. We probably never should have had "Gulliver's Travels" from Swift, if we had not first had Gargantua and Pantagruel from Rabelais. Swift, however, differs from Rabelais as well as resembles him. Whereas ...

— Classic French Course in English • William Cleaver Wilkinson

... rather smaller than the same species brought from other places: the swallow is also smaller, though it is doubtful whether or not it is distinct from its analogue. The two owls, the two tyrant-flycatchers (Pyrocephalus) and the dove, are also smaller than the analogous but distinct species, to which they are most nearly related; on the other hand, the gull is rather larger. The two ...

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— Brief History of English and American Literature • Henry A. Beers

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— Plato and Platonism • Walter Horatio Pater

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