Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To merge into each other in a series of stages, forms, or types.
- noun A transitional stage, form, or type.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An intermediate grade.
- To become alike gradually, or approach in character by degrees, as one animal or plant compared with another; be graduated with diminishing degrees of difference, or graded into one another, as two or more species. See the extract.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
pass orchange from one state to another bysteps orstages .
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Examples
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My favorite falcon in the world, the Altai, is probably a natural hybrid or, if you merge the species, "intergrade" of the Gyr and Saker.
"Genetic Pollution"? 2005
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Perhaps Darwin's most important insight was his realization that species are not immutable, that they can intergrade over time in an "insensible series."
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Perhaps Darwin's most important insight was his realization that species are not immutable, that they can intergrade over time in an "insensible series."
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Perhaps Darwin's most important insight was his realization that species are not immutable, that they can intergrade over time in an "insensible series."
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Perhaps Darwin's most important insight was his realization that species are not immutable, that they can intergrade over time in an "insensible series."
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From The Evolution List via Telic Thoughts Perhaps Darwin's most important insight was his realization that species are not immutable, that they can intergrade over time in an "insensible series."
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They make no effort to intergrade with the whites but they quite willing for us to support them totally.
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On drier, high elevation slopes and ridgetops, both pitch pine-scrub oak and chestnut oak forests occur, and often intergrade.
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Southern Rocky Mountain fauna species intergrade with Great Plains species on Black Mesa in the western Panhandle.
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These coastal savannas intergrade with low coastal forest and scrub, which gradually give way to continuous moist forest cover further inland.
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