intercross

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act or product of intercrossing
    — Intercrosses are particularly useful with recessive mutations maintained in a small colony.
动词 v.
  1. To cross back over one another
    — From this trunk, like a tower, rose an enormous tenfold ramification, the branches of which crossed and intercrossed, and forked and developed, […]
  2. To breed two strains having a common ancestry with one another
    — A species varies occasionally in two directions, but owing to their free intercrossing they (the variations) never increase.

词形变化

intercrosses present,singular,third-person intercrossing participle,present intercrossed participle,past intercrossed past intercrosses plural

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Italic *n̥ter
Latin inter
Latin inter-bor.
English inter-
English cross
English intercross
From inter- + cross.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Italic *n̥ter
Latin inter
Latin inter-bor.
English inter-
English cross
English intercross
From inter- + cross.
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