intercross
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So it must be, owing merely to the prepotency of foreign pollen, with cabbages and various other plants, the varieties of which almost invariably intercross when grown together.
From Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Charles Darwin
The individuals which have already begun to vary will intercross one with another by the aid of insects; and this accounts for the extreme diversity of character which many of our long cultivated plants exhibit.
From Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Charles Darwin
This proves that the oak family is young, compared with many other families, whose members are too distantly related to intercross.
From Trees Worth Knowing by Julia Ellen Rogers
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 Jean Jules Jusserand
He says, for example:— In the case of methodical selection, a breeder selects for some definite object, and if the individuals be allowed freely to intercross, his work will completely fail.
From Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol 3 of 3) Post-Darwinian Questions: Isolation and Physiological Selection by George John Romanes
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