For some of these groups, circumcision appears to be purely cultural, done with no particular religious significance or intention to distinguish members of a group.

There are very few molecular markers known, that can distinguish members of this order from other bacteria.

The Roman numerals after some names are to distinguish different members for this constituency, with the same name.

They were close enough now for Felix to distinguish individual members of the pack.

These chaetae have two parallel teeth resembling claws which is a feature that distinguishes members of this family from other polychaetes.

Most gentes regularly employed a limited number of personal names, or praenomina, the selection of which helped to distinguish members of one gens from another.

This refers to the protruding sagittal crest of the males, which distinguishes members of the genus.

A nickname can be used to distinguish members of the same family sharing the same name from one another.

The term idiothetic is also used in psychology to describe what distinguishes members of a species from one another and is contrasted with nomothetic.

This distinguishes members of different houses, and shows the house spirit within Harrow.