| 单词 | crossbreed |
| 释义 | crossbreed (once / 52765 pages) nv A crossbreed is an animal or plant that’s a mixture of two different breeds or types. To crossbreed is to produce a creature of this type. If you crossbreed a lion and a tiger, you make a liger. Geneticists, who study DNA, make crossbreeds when they mix parents with different genes to create a new type of offspring. Often such crossbreeds are new kinds of plants. Different animals can be mixed to create crossbreeds, too. A common example of a crossbreed is with dog breeds, like when a poodle and a schnauzer are bred to create a schnoodle. WORD FAMILYcrossbreed: crossbred, crossbreeding, crossbreeds+/bred: ill-bred, underbred/breed: bred, breeded, breeder, breeding, breeds, crossbreed, interbreed/breeder: breeders/breeding: breedings, ill-breeding, inbreeding/inbreeding: inbreedings/interbreed: interbred, interbreeding, interbreeds USAGE EXAMPLESBlunt compared the fledgling power structure to a “hybrid vigor,” when animals are crossbred to create a superior species. Washington Post(Nov 19, 2016) He has continually crossbred chickens from different nations to create a hybrid that is ever more robust in health and spectacular in physical attributes. New York Times(Oct 26, 2016) "We strongly encourage people to choose a healthier breed or a crossbreed instead." BBC(Sep 20, 2016) 1n (genetics) 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 Syn|Hypo|Hyper cross, hybrid dihybrid a hybrid produced by parents that differ only at two gene loci that have two alleles each monohybrida hybrid produced by crossing parents that are homozygous except for a single gene locus that has two alleles (as in Mendel's experiments with garden peas) being, organism a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently 2v breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties Mendel tried crossbreeding Syn|Hypo|Hyper cross, hybridise, hybridize, interbreed backcross mate a hybrid of the first generation with one of its parents breed cause to procreate (animals) |
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