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crossmating

crossmating is the present participle and gerund of crossmate.

Meaning of crossmate

Verb

crossmate (third-person singular simple present crossmates, present participle crossmating, simple past and past participle crossmated)

  1. (transitive) To mate individuals of different species, breeds, etc.
    • They proved to be fertile when they were crossmated and backcrossed to both parental species (using the forced-copulation method).1986, Gail E. Stratton, George W. Uetz, “The Inheritance of Courtship Behavior in Schizocosa Wolf Spiders (Araneae; Lycosidae)”, in Milton Davis Huettel, editor, Evolutionary Genetics of Invertebrate...
    Synonyms:
    crossbreed

Questions about crossmating

What is crossmating the present participle and gerund of?
Crossmating is the present participle and gerund of crossmate.

Words near crossmating in the dictionary

  1. crossmatches
  2. crossmatching
  3. crossmate
  4. crossmated
  5. crossmates
  6. crossmating
  7. crossmember
  8. crossmembers
  9. crossmen
  10. crossmetatheses
  11. crossmetathesis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crossmating (page history and authors); crossmate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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