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hybridization

  1. Producing offspring from parents of different stock.


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Notes

Hybridization is used extensively in agriculture, where new forms of hardy and disease-resistant plants are produced commercially.

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Example Sentences

He showed a knowledge of the possibilities of hybridization of American species with Vitis vinifera.

Yet he suggests, and was probably the first to do so, the possibility of hybridization between American and the European species.

Mr. Reed: We haven't devoted a great deal of attention to the hybridization of nuts in our Department work.

He investigated the effects of heterogeneous hybridization also in fishes, which are a much more favourable object.

The writer tried whether this hybridization could not be accomplished provided the constitution of the sea water were changed.

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