Usually means: Genes related by common ancestry.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. homolog: Merriam-Webster
  2. homolog: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. homolog: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. homolog: Collins English Dictionary
  5. homolog: Wordnik
  6. homolog: Wiktionary
  7. homolog: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. homolog: Dictionary.com
  9. Homolog: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. homolog: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. homolog: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. homolog: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. homolog: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Homolog (homologue): MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. homolog: Medical dictionary
  4. Homolog (homologue): Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. DOE Genome Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Bryological (No longer online)
  3. General Chemistry Online (No longer online)
  4. homolog: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (homolog)

noun:  Something homologous; a homologous organ or part, chemical compound, chromosome, gene, or cultural element.
noun:  (linguistics) A phoneme, morpheme, or word shared by two languages or dialects, via cognation or naturalization.
noun:  (biology, genetics, medicine) One of a group of similar DNA sequences that share a common ancestry, or the peptides or proteins that they encode; the counterpart gene or protein in another taxon evolved from a common ancestor (molecularly it may be either identical or similar).
noun:  (organic chemistry) A member of a homologous series.
noun:  (cultural anthropology) A belief, practice, concept, or artifact that has a counterpart in another culture.

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