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▪ I. ˈintergrade, n.
[inter- 2 b.]
An intermediate grade or stage.
1889S. H. Scudder Butterflies New Engl. 160 The intergrades found throughout the belt forming the northern boundary of the typical alope and the southern boundary of the typical nephele seem to be far more easily explainable on the hypothesis of hybridism. 1896Brit. Birds I. 193 The intergrades between the olive and ruddy mottled types are the commonest.
▪ II. interˈgrade, v.
[inter- 1 b.]
intr. To pass into another form by intervening grades.
1874T. M. Trippe in Coues Birds N.W. 145 Junco hyemalis, a. aikeni, intergrades with the following form, though not as intimately as that does with the succeeding. 1884Coues Key N.A. Birds 79 We treat as specific any form that we do not know or believe to intergrade. |