Crossword clues for crossbreed
crossbreed
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crossbreed \Cross"breed`\ (-br[=e]d`), n.
A breed or an animal produced from parents of different breeds; a new variety, as of plants, combining the qualities of two parent varieties or stocks.
Anything partaking of the natures of two different things; a hybrid.
Wiktionary
alt. (context transitive English) To produce (an organism) by the mate of individuals of different breeds, variety, or species; hybridize. n. An organism produced by mate of individuals of different variety or breeds. vb. (context transitive English) To produce (an organism) by the mate of individuals of different breeds, variety, or species; hybridize.
WordNet
n. an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species; "a mule is a cross between a horse and a donkey" [syn: hybrid, cross]
v. 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" [syn: cross, hybridize, hybridise, interbreed]
[also: crossbred]
Wikipedia
A '''crossbreed ''' or crossbred usually refers to an organism with purebred parents of two different breeds, varieties, or populations. Crossbreeding, sometimes called "designer crossbreeding", refers to the process of breeding such an organism, often with the intention to create offspring that share the traits of both parent lineages, or producing an organism with hybrid vigor. While crossbreeding is used to maintain health and viability of organisms, irresponsible crossbreeding can also produce organisms of inferior quality or dilute a purebred gene pool to the point of extinction of a given breed of organism.
The term is also used at times to refer to a domestic animal of unknown ancestry where the breed status of only one parent or grandparent is known, though the term "mixed breed" is technically more accurate. The term outcross is used to describe a type of crossbreeding used within a purebred breed to increase the genetic diversity within the breed, particularly when there is a need to avoid inbreeding.
In animal breeding, crossbreed describes crosses within a single species, while hybrid refers to crosses between different species. In plant breeding terminology, the term crossbreed is uncommon. No universal term is used to distinguish hybridization or crossing within a population from those between populations, or even those between species.
Crossbreed was a six-member heavy metal band from Clearwater, Florida, formed in 1996. They were signed with Artemis Records before being dropped from the label in 2003. The band released two EPs and three full-length albums before disbanding in 2010.
Usage examples of "crossbreed".
Besides, Kerr planned to crossbreed his Africans to produce a more gentle bee.
In 1956 a Brazilian entomologist had imported African bees with the idea of crossbreeding them with Brazilian bees and creating a bee family as industrious as the Africans but as as the European bee.
A lady in Gloucester who liked bullterrier crossbreeds wrote to say she might adopt me.
Lakshman was suddenly face to face with the rear end of a mithun, a buffalo-bison crossbreed from the northeastern hills.
Rakshasas, Danavs, Daityas, Pisacas, Yaksas, and every crossbreed thereof feasted their alien eyes on the goal that had eluded every invading army for a millennium.
Over torn-up slates and boards and their crossbreeds, through a low nightlit forest of flues steeples watertowers, in ridings not my own.
There were detailed descriptions of crossbreeding experiments between the cherimoya and other members of annonaceae.
It might be true, since it was a fact that despite official denial crossbreeds between servants and Chosen were possible-and did happen, even though designated bedwarmers were always sterile.
If centaurs accepted unrestricted crossbreeding, as the equines did, they would eventually be fragmented as a species, as the equines were.
Humans did tend to discourage crossbreeding, but were reasonably tolerant of what did occur.
Oh, of course," he said, modifying his view, "the blood cells are different, humanoid race to humanoid race, and these are the one channel by which you can identify crossbreeding between planets.
If a species interbreeds with other species, the crossbreeds are their descendants.
My naga kind arose when human folk bred with serpent folk, and the centaurs were crossbreeds between humans and horses, and the mer folk derive from humans and fish, and the harpies from humans and birds.
Well, bom were crossbreeds, and he was almost as handsome as she was beautiful.
When we are gone there will be only crossbreeds remaining, and they will not remain long, for they prefer concourse with the growing populations of their own kind.