Sekirov Dictionary

intercross

verb 2
noun 1
forms 3

verb2

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To cross back over one another
- From this trunk, like a tower, rose an enormous tenfold ramification, the branches of which crossed and intercrossed, and forked and developed, […] — 1895
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To breed two strains having a common ancestry with one another
- A species varies occasionally in two directions, but owing to their free intercrossing they (the variations) never increase. — 1916

noun1

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The act or product of intercrossing
- Intercrosses are particularly useful with recessive mutations maintained in a small colony. — 2000

forms

intercrossed · intercrossing · intercrosses

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