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third-person singular simple present intercrosses, present participle intercrossing, simple past and past participle intercrossed
To cross back over one another quotations examples
From this trunk, like a tower, rose an enormous tenfold ramification, the branches of which crossed and intercrossed, and forked and developed, […]
1895, Jules Verne, Captain Antifer, page 134
(biology, genetics) To breed two strains having a common ancestry with one another quotations
A species varies occasionally in two directions, but owing to their free intercrossing they (the variations) never increase.
1916, Alfred Russel Wallace, Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1
plural intercrosses
(biology, genetics) The act or product of intercrossing quotations
Intercrosses are particularly useful with recessive mutations maintained in a small colony.
2000, Xavier Montagutelli, “Determining the Genetic Basis of a New Trait”, in Sundberg & Boggess, editors, Systematic Approach to Evaluation of Mouse Mutations, page 20