intercross
English
Etymology
Verb
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- To cross back over one another
- 1895, Jules Verne, Captain Antifer[1], page 134:
- From this trunk, like a tower, rose an enormous tenfold ramification, the branches of which crossed and intercrossed, and forked and developed, […]
- (biology, genetics) To breed two strains having a common ancestry with one another
- 1916, Alfred Russel Wallace, Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1[2]:
- A species varies occasionally in two directions, but owing to their free intercrossing they (the variations) never increase.
Translations
To cross back over one another
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(biology, genetics) to breed
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Noun
intercross (plural intercrosses)
- (biology, genetics) The act or product of intercrossing
Translations
The act or product of intercrossing
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Related terms
Spanish
Noun
intercross m (uncountable)