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heteroses

heteroses is the plural of heterosis.

Meaning of heterosis

Noun

heterosis (countable and uncountable, plural heteroses)

  1. The tendency of cross-breeding to produce an animal or plant with a greater hardiness than its parents; hybrid vigour.
    • Hybridisation can also result in heterosis - the scientific term for the production of ʽsuper fit’ hybrid individuals - many examples of which come from agriculture. Heterosis can be thought of as the opposite of inbreeding depression, the phenomenon whereby the offspring of individuals that are...2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 159

Questions about heteroses

What is heteroses the plural of?
Heteroses is the plural of heterosis.

Words near heteroses in the dictionary

  1. heteroschedasticity
  2. heteroscian
  3. heteroscians
  4. heterosegmental
  5. heterosegmentally
  6. heteroses
  7. heterosex
  8. heterosexed
  9. heterosexes
  10. heterosexing
  11. heterosexism

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