intercross

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I have seen several times bees visiting common and sweet peas, and yet varieties, purposely grown close together, hardly ever intercross.

From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Darwin, Francis, Sir

For the sides approach in an arching way, surrounding a considerable cavity, and the marginal spine-like bristles merely intercross their tips, leaving intervening spaces through which one may look into the cavity beneath.

From Darwiniana; Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism by Gray, Asa

In "Cross and Self-Fertilisation," page 156, Darwin quotes the information received from Delpino and referred to in the present letter—namely, that it is the fixed opinion of the Italian gardeners that the varieties do intercross.

From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Darwin, Francis, Sir

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 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