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crossbreeding

 
Noun crossbreeding has 2 senses
  1. hybridization, hybridisation, crossbreeding, crossing, cross, interbreeding, hybridizing - (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids
    --1 is a kind of coupling, mating, pairing, conjugation, union, sexual union
    --1 has particulars:
     dihybrid cross; monohybrid cross; reciprocal cross, reciprocal; testcross, test-cross
  2. miscegenation, crossbreeding, interbreeding - reproduction by parents of different races (especially by white and non-white persons)
    --2 is a kind of reproduction, procreation, breeding, facts of life
Verb crossbreed has 1 sense
  1. crossbreed, cross, hybridize, hybridise, interbreed - breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties; "cross a horse and a donkey"; "Mendel tried crossbreeding"; "these species do not interbreed"
    --1 is one way to breed
    Derived form: noun crossbreed1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
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