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Definition of Cross-fertilize

1. Verb. Undergo cross-fertilization; become fertile.

2. Verb. Cause to undergo cross-fertilization. "Mendel cross-fertilized different kinds of beans"

Definition of Cross-fertilize

1. Verb. To undergo (or cause to undergo) cross-fertilization. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cross-fertilize

cross-cultural psychiatry cross-cut bur cross-division cross-dressers cross-examination cross-examine cross-examiner cross-eye cross-eyed cross-fertilisation

cross-fertilise cross-fertilization cross-fertilize (current term) cross-file cross-foster cross-fostered cross-fostering cross-fosters cross-garnet cross-garnets

cross-grained cross-hatch cross-hatched cross-hatches cross-hatching cross-hybridisation cross-index

Literary usage of Cross-fertilize

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report by American Genetic Association (1907)
"These three nuts, the Persian, the Japanese, and the native American, readily cross-fertilize. Here, therefore, is another problem whose solution appears to ..."

2. Biennial Report by Kansas State Horticultural Society (1904)
"The same general principles will apply to breeding other species of plants, but some are much more difficult to cross-fertilize. Wheat, for instance, rarely ..."

3. The Minnesota Horticulturist by Minnesota State Horticultural Society (1900)
"whose fruit hangs fast to the tree, and cross-fertilize it with one of our good hardy seedlings which bears large apples. Before I close this paper I would ..."

4. The Development of the Frog's Egg: An Introduction to Experimental Embryology by Thomas Hunt Morgan (1897)
"Lataste in 1878 attempted to cross-fertilize the eggs of different species of urodeles with Pelobates fuscus and P. cultripes. ..."

5. Annual Report (1907)
"Two varieties should not be planted near together, since the evidence shows that, if they bloom ai the same time, they may cross-fertilize. ..."

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