Definitions
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
intercross .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective produced by crossbreeding
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Examples
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Pocomoke was produced and selected at the National Arboretum by Egolf from five original plants and their progeny that were intercrossed for five generations.
New crop of hybrid plants demonstrate beauty of ingenuity Joel M. Lerner 2011
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When Mendel intercrossed short and tall, or blue-flowering and green-flowering, plants using a pair of minute forceps, he stumbled on a startling phenomenon.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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When Mendel intercrossed short and tall, or blue-flowering and green-flowering, plants using a pair of minute forceps, he stumbled on a startling phenomenon.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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When Mendel intercrossed short and tall, or blue-flowering and green-flowering, plants using a pair of minute forceps, he stumbled on a startling phenomenon.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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He hid his canoe in the bushes and strode rapidly across the islet, pushing with impatience through the twigs of heavy undergrowth intercrossed over his path.
Almayer's Folly 2006
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Charity called back, shoving the stumbling Padma closer to the intercrossed sprays.
High School Confidential Jeremy Iversen 2006
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Selected individuals of this hybrid were intercrossed, and some crossing with the native chestnut was done.
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It is necessary, besides, to perform office work of the most detailed kind in order to refer to the same origin all these curves, which are intercrossed and often superposed in certain parts upon the original sheet.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 443, June 28, 1884 Various
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Therefore, some of the best early crosses have been repeated, new parent trees are being tried and selected hybrids intercrossed.
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The top part of the frame still hung naked, an intercrossed cage of steel.
The Fountainhead Rand, Ayn 1943
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