intercross

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In other words, this is the day on which those charming little missives, ycleped Valentines, cross and intercross each other at every street and turning.

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Lamb, Charles

Column 3: Plants from an intercross between the Plants of the Eighth Self-fertilised Generation.

From Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Darwin, Charles

Much other indirect evidence could be given with respect to the extent to which varieties of the same species spontaneously intercross.

From Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Darwin, Charles

Pisum sativum, varieties of, rarely intercross, but a cross between them highly beneficial.

From Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Darwin, Charles

Their expeditions intercross each other; we find them everywhere at once; Franks are seen at London, and Saxons at Angers.

From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jusserand, Jean Jules