Meaning & use
Crossbreeding
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The practice of breeding animals or plants of different varieties, breeds, or species to produce offspring with combined traits.
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Crossbreeding between two cattle breeds produced calves with better disease resistance.
Farmers use crossbreeding to develop crops that are more drought-tolerant.
A note on using this word
Widely used in agriculture and animal husbandry to combine desirable traits from different lineages.
Words with a similar meaning
hybridizationinterbreeding
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Words with an opposite meaning
purebreeding
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