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n. 1 a type or instance of breeding separate strains of the same species in order to create new traits. 2 a type or instance of breeding members of similar albeit distinct species. i.e. horse + donkey = mule vb. (present participle of cross-breed English)
Usage examples of "cross-breeding".
Afterwards, geneticists had wryly demonstrated that —since each racial group was so small that unless their descendants intermarried, each would undergo deteriorative genetic drift due to inbreeding on the colony planet—the racists had made cross-breeding necessary to survival.
Afterwards, geneticists had wryly demonstrated that–since each racial group was so small that unless their descendants intermarried, each would undergo deteriorative genetic drift due to inbreeding on the colony planet–the racists had made cross-breeding necessary to survival.
This variation can be exploited in a number of ways, including cross-breeding and bud grafting.
Their mission was to trade hides for food-plant seeds in the hope of cross-breeding hybrids which would grow very quickly during the ever-shortening northern summer.
Only if there were other cross-breedings would there be others, and centaurs as a class were too conservative to permit that.
We've had it bred out of us, just as the Russian wolfhound has had its fine pointed nose and sleek, shiny coat developed from years of breeding and cross-breeding.
All he learned reinforced his desire h to follow Bawu's successful experiments wit cross-breeding the indigenous Afrikaner strain, known for its hardiness and disease- and drou lit-resistance, with the quicker yielding Santa Gertrudis strain.
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