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BACKCROSS
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they backcross ... he / she / it backcrosses
Past simple: backcrossed
Past participle: backcrossed
-ing form: backcrossing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Mate a hybrid of the first generation with one of its parents
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "backcross" is one way to...):
cross; crossbreed; hybridise; hybridize; interbreed (breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
