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Definition of Bigeneric
1. Adjective. Resulting from a cross between species of different genera.
Definition of Bigeneric
1. Adjective. (botany) Describing an (infertile) cross between plants belonging to different genera. ¹
2. Adjective. (taxonomy) Describing a taxonomic group containing only two genera. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bigeneric
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bigeneric
Literary usage of Bigeneric
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cultivated Plants: Their Propagation and Improvement by Frederick William Thomas Burbridge (1877)
"bigeneric Half-breeds are plants obtainable by crossing varieties of two species
belonging to different genera. Hybrids or Mules * are the products of two ..."
2. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society by Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain). (1886)
"But when we enumerate the capsules with apparently good seed that have been
obtained from bigeneric crosses, but from which no seedlings have been raised, ..."
3. Plant-breeding: Being Six Lectures Upon the Amelioration of Domestic Plants by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1912)
"bigeneric half-breed. — The product of a cross between varieties of species of
different genera. Close-fertilization; self-fertilization. ..."
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