Homologue

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Homologue \Hom"o*logue\, n. [Cf. F. homologue. See
     {Homologous}.]
     That which is homologous to something else; as, the
     corresponding sides, etc., of similar polygons are the
     homologues of each other; the members or terms of an
     homologous series in chemistry are the homologues of each


     other; one of the bones in the hand of man is the homologue
     of that in the paddle of a whale.
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