intercrossing
intercrossing is the present participle and gerund of intercross.
Meaning of intercross
Verb
intercross (third-person singular simple present intercrosses, present participle intercrossing, simple past and past participle intercrossed)
- 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
- 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
Noun
intercrossing (countable and uncountable, plural intercrossings)
- The interbreeding of two strains that have a common ancestry
Forms of intercrossing
| plural | intercrossings |
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Questions about intercrossing
- What does intercrossing mean?
- Intercrossing means the interbreeding of two strains that have a common ancestry.
- What is intercrossing the present participle and gerund of?
- Intercrossing is the present participle and gerund of intercross.
- What part of speech is intercrossing?
- Intercrossing is a noun.
- What is the plural of intercrossing?
- The plural of intercrossing is intercrossings.
Words near intercrossing in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: intercrossing (page history and authors); intercross (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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