crossbreeding

1. 1.

   (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids

   Synonymshybridizationhybridisationcrossingcrossinterbreedinghybridizing

   Broadercoupling

   Narrowerdihybrid crossmonohybrid crossreciprocal crosstestcross

   genetics

2. 2.

   reproduction by parents of different races (especially by white and non-white persons)

   Synonymsmiscegenationinterbreeding

   Broaderreproduction

Other forms of crossbreeding

plural

crossbreedings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about crossbreeding

What does crossbreeding mean?

crossbreeding means "(genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in crossbreeding?

crossbreeding has 3 syllables: cross-bree-ding. The stress falls on "cross".

What is another word for crossbreeding?

Close synonyms include hybridization, hybridisation, crossing, cross, interbreeding. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is crossbreeding a common word?

crossbreeding is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.