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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Relating to a hybrid that results from a cross between plants of different genera.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having the characters of two different genera; having the character of a bigener.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective botany Describing an (infertile) cross between plants belonging to different genera.
  • adjective taxonomy Describing a taxonomic group containing only two genera.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective resulting from a cross between species of different genera

Etymologies

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bi- +‎ generic

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