Loading page
say it: het-ur-OH-suhs
heterosis is a noun meaning "(genetics) the tendency of a crossbred organism to have qualities superior to those of either parent". It is pronounced /ˌhɛtɚˈoʊsəs/ — het-ur-OH-suhs. It carries one recorded sense.
(genetics) the tendency of a crossbred organism to have qualities superior to those of either parent
genetics
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for heterosis come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.