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