Heterosis

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. See hybrid vigor.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The tendency of cross-breeding to produce an animal or plant with a greater hardiness than its parents; hybrid vigour
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A figure of speech by which one form of a noun, verb, or pronoun, and the like, is used for another, as in the sentence: “What is life to such as me?”
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In grammar and rhetoric, same as enallage.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. (genetics) the tendency of a crossbred organism to have qualities superior to those of either parent
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    tendency    inclination   
    Form
    heterotic   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    acidosis    apotheosis    arteriosclerosis    asbestosis    cirrhosis   
     
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