backcross

About 0.11 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To cross a hybrid with one of its parents.
2. noun The act of crossing a hybrid with one of its parents.
3. noun An organism produced by such a crossing.
4. noun Alternative form of back cross.

Similar words

crossback subcross double-cross intercross cross outcross testcross crossbreed cross-breed crosshybridize

Often followed by

to progeny generations of generation populations breeding and progenies

Word family

backcrossed backcrosses backcrossing