CROSSBREED (crossbred)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: crossbred   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does crossbreed mean? 

• CROSSBREED (noun)
  The noun CROSSBREED has 1 sense:

1. (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

  Familiarity information: CROSSBREED used as a noun is very rare.

• CROSSBREED (verb)
  The verb CROSSBREED has 1 sense:

1. breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties

  Familiarity information: CROSSBREED used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CROSSBREED (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

cross; crossbreed; hybrid

Context example:

a mule is a cross between a horse and a donkey

Hypernyms ("crossbreed" is a kind of...):

being; organism (a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently)

Domain category:

genetic science; genetics (the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "crossbreed"):

dihybrid (a hybrid produced by parents that differ only at two gene loci that have two alleles each)

monohybrid (a 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))

Derivation:

crossbreed (breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties)

• CROSSBREED (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they crossbreed    ... he / she / it crossbreeds   
Past simple: crossbred   
Past participle: crossbred   
-ing form: crossbreeding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

cross; crossbreed; hybridise; hybridize; interbreed

Context example:

these species do not interbreed

Hypernyms (to "crossbreed" is one way to...):

breed (cause to procreate (animals))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "crossbreed"):

backcross (mate a hybrid of the first generation with one of its parents)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

crossbreed ((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)

 Context examples 

Sea rice that is able to grow in tidal flats or saline-alkali land was developed by crossbreeding different varieties of rice.

(Saltwater Rice Successfully Harvested by Chinese Scientists, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)