Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The hybrid of parents that differ at only three gene loci, for which each parent is homozygous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Biol.) A hybrid whose parents differ by three pairs of contrasting Mendelian characters.
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Brazil is a trihybrid population of Native Indians,
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Finally, a completly novel rearrangment of a car's power generation and powertrain system would be required in order to make a waste heat recovery based trihybrid practical.
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