verb
- Breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties.
- usage: "cross a horse and a donkey"; "Mendel tried crossbreeding"; "these species do not interbreed"
- synonyms: crossbreed, cross, hybridize, hybridise, interbreed
adjective
- Bred from parents of different varieties or species. .
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