verb
breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties
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cross a horse and a donkey
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Mendel tried crossbreeding
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these species do not interbreed
• Syn: ↑crossbreed, ↑cross, ↑hybridize, ↑interbreed
• Derivationally related forms:
↑interbreeding (for: ↑interbreed), ↑hybridisation, ↑hybridization (for: ↑hybridize), ↑hybridizing (for: ↑hybridize), ↑hybrid (for: ↑hybridize), ↑cross (for: ↑cross), ↑crossing (for: ↑cross), ↑crossbreed (for: ↑crossbreed)
• Hypernyms: ↑breed
• Hyponyms: ↑backcross
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something
Useful english dictionary. 2012.