The state or quality of being a congener; the relationship between organisms that share the same genus.
Derived from 'congener' with the suffix '-acy' meaning state or quality. A very rare formal noun used primarily in historical taxonomic writing.
This almost-never-used word is a gem for word lovers—it's the formal way to describe 'cousinship' at the genus level. It appears mainly in 18th and 19th-century naturalist writings.
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