outcross
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Noun
outcross (plural outcrosses)
- The introduction of unrelated breeding stock to an existing population, especially one which is inbred or homogeneous.
- 2007, Tim Blanning, The Pursuit of Glory, Penguin, published 2008, page 249:
- Their two sons, Joseph I and Charles VI went still further in their pursuit of an out-cross by both marrying princesses from the Guelph house of Brunswick.
- A plant or animal produced by such methods.
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outcross (third-person singular simple present outcrosses, present participle outcrossing, simple past and past participle outcrossed)
- (transitive) to crossbreed different strains of a plant or animal.