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intercrossed

intercrossed is the simple past and past participle of intercross.

Meaning of intercross

Verb

intercross (third-person singular simple present intercrosses, present participle intercrossing, simple past and past participle intercrossed)

  1. To cross back over one another
    • From this trunk, like a tower, rose an enormous tenfold ramification, the branches of which crossed and intercrossed, and forked and developed, […]1895, Jules Verne, Captain Antifer, page 134
  2. To breed two strains having a common ancestry with one another
    • A species varies occasionally in two directions, but owing to their free intercrossing they (the variations) never increase.1916, Alfred Russel Wallace, Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1

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Questions about intercrossed

What is intercrossed the simple past and past participle of?
Intercrossed is the simple past and past participle of intercross.

Words near intercrossed in the dictionary

  1. intercrop
  2. intercropped
  3. intercropping
  4. intercrops
  5. intercross
  6. intercrossed
  7. intercrosses
  8. intercrossing
  9. intercrossings
  10. intercrural
  11. intercrural sex

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