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Definition of outcross in English:
outcross
transitive verb
[with object]Breed (an animal or plant) with one not closely related.
‘No affected kittens were born from outcrossing parents of an affected animal with normal unrelated cats.’- ‘However, in all other cases, inbred lines have to be produced before outcrossing them.’
- ‘This strain was then outcrossed six times to wild-type worms.’
- ‘To rule out the possibility that the allelic difference was caused by the genetic background, we outcrossed the chic-carrying chromosome with a multiply marked chromosome and replaced 60% of the chic chromosome.’
- ‘The 10 resistant mutants were outcrossed twice to wild type.’
noun
An animal or plant produced as the result of outcrossing.
‘The outcrosses in each plot were removed and then plants were thinned to approximately 6.5 plants/m.’- ‘To ensure that observed chromosome pairing was generally indicative of the species and that there was no difference between selfing and outcrossing, 11 self-crosses and 2 outcrosses were observed.’
- ‘While the warmbloods of France, Germany, Sweden, Poland, Hungary and other European countries have produced a number of good individuals, their pedigrees are riddled with recent Thoroughbred, Arabian and other outcrosses.’
- ‘Some outcrosses are excellent, while others are not.’
- ‘These outcrosses were chosen to produce as many colors and patterns as possible, including the colorpoint pattern of the Siamese.’
- ‘Eventually, the approved outcrosses for Scottish folds were limited to British and American shorthairs.’
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