单词 | bigener |
释义 | bigenern. Botany. A hybrid produced by the crossing of plants of two different genera.In quot. 2003 figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > variety or species > [noun] > cross or hybrid mule1728 bigener1817 graft-hybrid1868 nothomorph1939 polycross1946 metis1974 1817 Bot. Reg. 3 195 Rhododendron hybridum; bigener. 1835 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. (ed. 2) ii. vi. 287 Bigeners, that is to say mules between different genera. 1915 Standard Cycl. Hort. III. 1618/1 Specific kinds of crosses are hybrids, between species; cross-breeds, between plants of the same species; half-hybrid, between a species and a variety of another species; bigener, between plants of different genera. 1981 Taxon 30 270 For the simple bigener Aporocactus × Epiphyllum a different name applies. 2003 R. G. Small in S. Linstead Text/Work xii. 269 This recasting of the moral compass is itself a device, a storyteller's step through the annals of an American original, if not an original American, another bigener bred of fact and fiction. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1817 |
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