heterosis – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
heterosis
n.
increased strength of different characteristics in hybrids (Biology)
Heterosis
Heterosis,
hybrid vigor, or
outbreeding enhancement, is the improved or increased function of any biological quality in a
hybrid offspring. The adjective derived from
heterosis is
heterotic.
hétérosis
nf.
heterosis, increased strength of different characteristics in hybrids (Biology)
Heterosis
(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?"
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
heterosis
