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CROSSBREEDING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Reproduction by parents of different races (especially by white and non-white persons)
Synonyms:
crossbreeding; interbreeding; miscegenation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("crossbreeding" is a kind of...):
breeding; facts of life; procreation; reproduction (the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids
Synonyms:
cross; crossbreeding; crossing; hybridisation; hybridization; hybridizing; interbreeding
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("crossbreeding" is a kind of...):
conjugation; coupling; mating; pairing; sexual union; union (the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes)
Domain category:
genetic science; genetics (the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crossbreeding"):
dihybrid cross (hybridization using two traits with two alleles each)
monohybrid cross (hybridization using a single trait with two alleles (as in Mendel's experiments with garden peas))
reciprocal; reciprocal cross (hybridization involving a pair of crosses that reverse the sexes associated with each genotype)
test-cross; testcross (a cross between an organism whose genotype for a certain trait is unknown and an organism that is homozygous recessive for that trait so the unknown genotype can be determined from that of the offspring)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb crossbreed
