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crossbreeding (root: crossbreed)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun crossbreeding has 2 senses
- crossbreeding(n = noun.act) cross, crossing, hybridisation, hybridization, hybridizing, interbreeding - (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids; Array is a kind of conjugation, coupling, mating, pairing, sexual union, union
- crossbreeding(n = noun.act) interbreeding, miscegenation - reproduction by parents of different races (especially by white and non-white persons); Array is a kind of breeding, facts of life, procreation, reproduction
has particulars: dihybrid cross, monohybrid cross, reciprocal, reciprocal cross, test-cross, testcross
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