˜yÐÄvlog

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cross-fertile

[ kraws-fur-tl, kros- ]

adjective

  1. capable of cross-fertilization.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of cross-fertile1

First recorded in 1925–30
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Example Sentences

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Oh, technically, biologically, of course, we were probably cross-fertile, but....

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On the other hand all walnut, pecan, and hickory species are self-fertile and cross-fertile, but may be self-unfruitful because of dichogamy, because they may shed their pollen either before or after the stigmas of the pistillate flowers are receptive to it.

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But the enthusiasm with which this applied result of Mendel's Law was at first hailed by biologists has gradually subsided; for it has been found that though these new forms will breed true under certain conditions, they are nevertheless cross-fertile with the original forms, and thus the circle can be completed back again by a return to the parent form, from which the new "species" can again be produced at will with the same mathematical exactness as before.

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