/an"l awg', -og'/ , n.
1. something having analogy to something else.
2. Biol. an organ or part analogous to another.
3. Chem. one of a group of chemical compounds similar in structure but different in respect to elemental composition.
4. a food made from vegetable matter, esp. soybeans, that has been processed to taste and look like another food, as meat or dairy, and is used as a substitute for it.
Also, analog .
[ 1820-30; análogon, neut. of análogos ANALOGOUS; r. earlier analogon ]