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Intercross

noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act or product of intercrossing

    "Intercrosses are particularly useful with recessive mutations maintained in a small colony."

Verb
  1. 1
    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, […]"

  2. 2
    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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From inter- + cross.

Etymology 2

From inter- + cross.

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