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intercross

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. To cross back over one another
  2. 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.
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See also

intercrossed intercrosses intercrossing intercrystallize intercrystallized intercrystallizes

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