"crossmate" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "crossmates",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "crossmating",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "crossmated",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "crossmated",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cross-mate",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "crossmate (third-person singular simple present crossmates, present participle crossmating, simple past and past participle crossmated)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1986, Gail E. Stratton, George W. Uetz, “The Inheritnce of Courtship Behavior in Schizocosa Wolf Spiders (Araneae; Lycosidae)”, in Milton Davis Huettel, editor, Evolutionary Genetics of Invertebrate Behavior: Progress and Prospects, page 64:",
          "text": "They proved to be fertile when they were crossmated and backcrossed to both parental species (using the forced-copulation method).",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1990, Jean M. Auel, The Plains of Passage, published 2010, unnumbered page:",
          "text": "If Jondalar and Ayla would stay and become Sharamudoi, we would make an offer to cross-mate with them, but since Markeno and I are Ramudoi, they would have to be Shamudoi.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Mujibul Hasan Siddiqui, Early Childhood Education, page 14:",
          "text": "Both Aberdeen Angus and Hereford cows also have a different average length of gestation when purely mated than when crossmated.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, H.-J. Langholz, R. F. Diehl, W. Pabst, “Reproductive Success in Crossbreeding: Results from a Current Experiment in the Federal Republic of Germany”, in B. Hoffmann, I. L. Mason, J. Schmidt, editors, Calving Problems and Early Viability of the Calf, Seminar Proceedings, page 107:",
          "text": "Indeed, the results available so far from crossbreeding experiments show an overall positive effect of crossmating straightbred cows.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To mate individuals of different species, breeds, etc."
      ],
      "id": "en-crossmate-en-verb-Ds~9XzRR",
      "links": [
        [
          "mate",
          "mate"
        ],
        [
          "species",
          "species"
        ],
        [
          "breed",
          "breed"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To mate individuals of different species, breeds, etc."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "sense": "mate across species",
          "tags": [
            "usually"
          ],
          "word": "crossbreed"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "crossmate"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "crossmates",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "crossmating",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "crossmated",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "crossmated",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cross-mate",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "crossmate (third-person singular simple present crossmates, present participle crossmating, simple past and past participle crossmated)",
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1986, Gail E. Stratton, George W. Uetz, “The Inheritnce of Courtship Behavior in Schizocosa Wolf Spiders (Araneae; Lycosidae)”, in Milton Davis Huettel, editor, Evolutionary Genetics of Invertebrate Behavior: Progress and Prospects, page 64:",
          "text": "They proved to be fertile when they were crossmated and backcrossed to both parental species (using the forced-copulation method).",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1990, Jean M. Auel, The Plains of Passage, published 2010, unnumbered page:",
          "text": "If Jondalar and Ayla would stay and become Sharamudoi, we would make an offer to cross-mate with them, but since Markeno and I are Ramudoi, they would have to be Shamudoi.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Mujibul Hasan Siddiqui, Early Childhood Education, page 14:",
          "text": "Both Aberdeen Angus and Hereford cows also have a different average length of gestation when purely mated than when crossmated.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, H.-J. Langholz, R. F. Diehl, W. Pabst, “Reproductive Success in Crossbreeding: Results from a Current Experiment in the Federal Republic of Germany”, in B. Hoffmann, I. L. Mason, J. Schmidt, editors, Calving Problems and Early Viability of the Calf, Seminar Proceedings, page 107:",
          "text": "Indeed, the results available so far from crossbreeding experiments show an overall positive effect of crossmating straightbred cows.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To mate individuals of different species, breeds, etc."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "mate",
          "mate"
        ],
        [
          "species",
          "species"
        ],
        [
          "breed",
          "breed"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To mate individuals of different species, breeds, etc."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "mate across species",
      "tags": [
        "usually"
      ],
      "word": "crossbreed"
    }
  ],
  "word": "crossmate"
}