2. Verb. (transitive) to crossbreed different strains of a plant of animal ¹
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Definition of Outcross
1. to cross with a relatively unrelated individual [v -ED, -ING, -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outcross
Literary usage of Outcross
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Theory and Practice of Cattle-breeding by William Warfield (1889)
"We have seen that the direct outcross of the Colling bull Pilot on the "White
Cow" with a ... She was bred to Young Matchem by the Mason outcross Matchem, ..."
2. Annual Report of the Minnesota State Agricultural Society by Minnesota State Agricultural Society (1907)
"I believe furthermore that If an animal is not related, but of the same type,
that he is not an outcross; he is just the same as an in-bred animal, ..."
3. American Roadsters and Trotting Horses: Being a Sketch of the Trotting by Henry T. Helm (1878)
"His dam was an outcross, but his granddam was in-bred, and his sire was in-bred,
... But the effect of an outcross of great vigor in his dam, a daughter of ..."
4. Sas/stat 9.1 User's Guide by SAS Institute, Virginia Clark (2004)
"Output Data Sets When an output data set includes variables containing the
posterior probabilities of group membership (OUT=, outcross=, or TESTOUT= data ..."
5. Shorthorn Cattle: A Series of Historical Sketches, Memoirs and Records of by Alvin Howard Sanders (1918)
"In view of the fact that this careful breeder freely conceded the desirability
of an outcross on his cattle prior to the sale of his herd, the contention of ..."
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