Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To cross reciprocally; specifically, in biology, to fertilize by impregnation of one species or variety by means of another; interbreed.
  • In biology, to become impregnated by a different variety or species, or, in the case of hermaphrodites, by a different individual.
  • noun An instance of cross-fertilization.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The process or result of cross fertilization between different kinds of animals, or different varieties of plants.
  • verb To cross each other, as lines.
  • verb (Biol.) To fertilize by the impregnation of one species or variety by another; to impregnate by a different species or variety.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To cross back over one another
  • verb biology, genetics To breed two strains having a common ancestry with one another
  • noun biology, genetics The act or product of intercrossing

Etymologies

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inter- +‎ cross

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