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Crossbreed

verb
(past crossbred; past part. crossbred)
1.
Breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties.  Synonyms: cross, hybridise, hybridize, interbreed.  "Mendel tried crossbreeding" , "These species do not interbreed"






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"Crossbreed" Quotes from Famous Books



... smaller plant that had been found in the temperate regions of Mars and purposely changed genetically to grow in the Siberian tundra country, where the conditions were similar to, but superior to, their natural habitat. They looked as though someone had managed to crossbreed the Joshua tree with the cypress and then persuaded the result to grow grass instead of leaves. And the photosynthesis of those grasslike blades depended on an iron-bearing compound that was more closely related to hemoglobin than to chlorophyll, giving them a rusty red color instead ...
— Anything You Can Do ... • Gordon Randall Garrett



Words linked to "Crossbreed" :   backcross, cross, breed, organism, hybridise, monohybrid, genetics, being, genetic science, dihybrid, hybrid



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