Usually means: Similar structure, different evolutionary origin.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word homologous:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. homologous: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. homologous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. homologous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. homologous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. homologous: Vocabulary.com
  6. Homologous, homologous: Wordnik
  7. homologous: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. homologous: Wiktionary
  9. homologous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. homologous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. homologous: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. homologous: Dictionary.com
  13. homologous: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Homologous: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Homologous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. homologous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. homologous: Rhymezone
  18. Homologous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. homologous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. homologous: Free Dictionary
  21. homologous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. homologous: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. homologous: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. homologous: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Homologous: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Microbial Genetics Glossary (No longer online)
  5. PERFUSION TECHNOLOGY, OPEN HEART SURGERY AND CARDIOLOGY (No longer online)
  6. Homologous: Drug Medical Dictionary
  7. homologous: Medical dictionary

Science (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)
  2. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Homologous: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  4. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  5. Bryological (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (homologous)

adjective:  Showing a degree of correspondence or similarity.
adjective:  (mathematics) In corresponding proportion.
adjective:  (biology) Corresponding to a similar structure in another life form with a common evolutionary origin.
adjective:  (chemistry) Belonging to a series of aliphatic organic compounds that differ only by the addition of a CH₂ group.
adjective:  (genetics) Having the same morphology as another chromosome or locus; relating to a homologue.
adjective:  (cultural anthropology, structural anthropology) Playing the same role as seen in another culture, whether by historical connection, psychological archetype, convergent cultural evolution, or otherwise (as may be hypothesized but not known with certainty by current science), as for example with the cryptozoologic concepts of yeti and sasquatch, the use of polite and familiar pronouns, or other similarities.

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