crossmate

English

Alternative forms

• cross-mate

Verb

crossmate (third-person singular simple present crossmates, present participle crossmating, simple past and past participle crossmated)

1. (transitive) To mate individuals of different species, breeds, etc.
   • 1986, Gail E. Stratton, George W. Uetz, “The Inheritnce of Courtship Behavior in Schizocosa Wolf Spiders (Araneae; Lycosidae)”, in Milton Davis Huettel, editor, Evolutionary Genetics of Invertebrate Behavior: Progress and Prospects, page 64:

     They proved to be fertile when they were crossmated and backcrossed to both parental species (using the forced-copulation method).

   • 1990, Jean M. Auel, The Plains of Passage, published 2010, unnumbered page:

     If Jondalar and Ayla would stay and become Sharamudoi, we would make an offer to cross-mate with them, but since Markeno and I are Ramudoi, they would have to be Shamudoi.

   • 2004, Mujibul Hasan Siddiqui, Early Childhood Education‎^[1], page 14:

     Both Aberdeen Angus and Hereford cows also have a different average length of gestation when purely mated than when crossmated.

   • 2012, H.-J. Langholz, R. F. Diehl, W. Pabst, “Reproductive Success in Crossbreeding: Results from a Current Experiment in the Federal Republic of Germany”, in B. Hoffmann, I. L. Mason, J. Schmidt, editors, Calving Problems and Early Viability of the Calf, Seminar Proceedings, page 107:

     Indeed, the results available so far from crossbreeding experiments show an overall positive effect of crossmating straightbred cows.

Synonyms

• (mate across species, etc.): crossbreed