Meaning

1 senses

  1. To cross a hybrid with one of its parents.

    mate a hybrid of the first generation with one of its parents

Forms

backcrosses, backcrossing, backcrossed, backcrossed
Base formbackcross · to backcross
3rd person singularbackcrosses
Present participlebackcrossing
Past simplebackcrossed
Past participlebackcrossed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theybackcross
he, she, itbackcrosses

Past simpleLesson

all personsbackcrossed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave backcrossed
he, she, ithas backcrossed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill backcross

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
backB1backacheB1backbonebackcountrybackdropbackerbackfire

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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