Usually means: Derived from duplication within species.
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  1. paralogous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. paralogous: Wordnik
  3. paralogous: Wiktionary
  4. Paralogous: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (paralogous)

adjective:  (genetics) (of multiple genes at different chromosomal locations in the same organism) Having a similar structure indicating divergence from a common ancestral gene
adjective:  (figurative) Having a similar structure, quality or nature indicating divergence or relationship from a common point of origin.

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