homolog

  1. Noun.  (linguistics) A word shared by two languages or dialects.
  2. Noun.  (genetics) one of a group of similar DNA sequences that share a common ancestry.
  3. Noun.  Something homologous; a homologous organ or part, chemical compound or a chromosome.

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