| VERB | contact | crossbreed, cross, hybridize, hybridise, interbreed | breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties |
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| NOUN | animal | crossbreed, hybrid, cross | (genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar / dissimilar parents or stock |
| Meaning | (genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar / dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species. | |
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| Synonyms | hybrid, cross | |
| Category | genetics, genetic science | The branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms |
| Narrower | dihybrid | A hybrid produced by parents that differ only at two gene loci that have two alleles each |
| monohybrid | A hybrid produced by crossing parents that are homozygous except for a single gene locus that has two alleles (as in Mendel's experiments / experiments with garden peas) | |
| Broader | organism, being | A living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently |
| Spanish | cruce, híbrida, híbrido | |
| Catalan | encreuament, híbrid | |
| Verbs | crossbreed | breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties |
| Meaning | Breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
| Example | "Mendel tried crossbreeding" | |
| Synonyms | cross, hybridize, hybridise, interbreed | |
| Narrower | backcross | mate a hybrid of the first generation with one of its parents |
| Broader | breed | Cause to procreate (animals) |
| Spanish | cruzar, hibridizar | |
| Nouns | crossbreed | (genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar / dissimilar parents or stock |
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