Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Meeting and intersecting, as lines; crossing; not parallel.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Meeting and intersecting, as lines; not parallel; -- opposed to
parallel .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective genetics Involving
crosses between several or all possiblecombinations . - adjective obsolete
Meeting andintersecting , aslines ; notparallel .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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Examples
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Seeds from a diallel breeding design were used to establish green-house pots containing three competing individuals.
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