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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality of breeding freely; fertility; specifically, the production of young by the union of individuals of different species or stocks.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Biol.) The quality or condition of having strong reproductive powers; generation with full fertility between different species or races, specif. between hybrids of the first generation.

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