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Definition of Intercrossed
1. Adjective. Produced by crossbreeding.
Definition of Intercrossed
1. Verb. (past of intercross) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Intercrossed
1. intercross [v] - See also: intercross
Lexicographical Neighbors of Intercrossed
Literary usage of Intercrossed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Charles Darwin (1876)
"The intercrossed plants (ie, those which had been intercrossed for the last five
generations) likewise exceed in height the self-fertilised plants, ..."
2. Charles Darwin's Works by Charles Darwin (1877)
"The Westerham-crossed plants in height to the self-fertilised as 100 to 66 The
Westerham-crossed plants in height to the intercrossed . . . . . .as 100 to ..."
3. The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilization in the Vegetable Kingdom, by Charles Darwin (1889)
"The Westerham-crossed plants in height to the self-fertilised as 100 to 66 The
Westerham-crossed plants in height to the intercrossed as 100 to 108 The ..."
4. The Origin of Floral Structures Through Insect and Other Agencies by George Henslow (1888)
"100:109 The English-crossed to the intercrossed * plants 100: 94 The intercrossed
to the self-fertilised plants ] 00:116 Secondly, as to weights,— The ..."
5. The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and (1879)
"Although the actual heights of the intercrossed plants were in every year greater
than those of the self-fertilised, yet the ratios taken as above proposed ..."
6. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (1909)
"Although the fertility of varieties when intercrossed and of their mongrel
offspring has been asserted by so many authors to be universal, this cannot be ..."
7. Inbreeding and Outbreeding: Their Genetic and Sociological Significance by Edward Murray East, Donald Forsha Jones (1919)
"Plants of the same stock intercrossed during several generations (as with ...
Lastly, certain plants which are regularly intercrossed by insects in a state ..."
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