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bigeneric

bigeneric adjective: describing an (infertile) cross between plants belonging to different genera.

Adjective

bigeneric (not comparable)

  1. Describing an (infertile) cross between plants belonging to different genera.
    • It's a bigeneric hybrid, they don't come in nature like that.1934, Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance, Bantam, published 1992, →ISBN, page 93
  2. Describing a taxonomic group containing only two genera.

Origin of bigeneric

From bi- + generic.

Questions about bigeneric

What does bigeneric mean?
Bigeneric means describing an (infertile) cross between plants belonging to different genera.
What part of speech is bigeneric?
Bigeneric is an adjective.

Words near bigeneric in the dictionary

  1. bigender
  2. bigendered
  3. bigenderism
  4. bigenera
  5. bigenerational
  6. bigeneric
  7. bigenic
  8. bigenital
  9. bigenome
  10. bigenomic
  11. bigenomically

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