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Meaning of intercross | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

To cross back over one another
To breed two strains having a common ancestry with one another

Examples

“From this trunk, like a tower, rose an enormous tenfold ramification, the branches of which crossed and intercrossed, and forked and developed, […]”

“A species varies occasionally in two directions, but owing to their free intercrossing they (the variations) never increase.”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

intercrossed intercrosses intercrossing intercrystallize intercrystallized intercrystallizes