backcross

  1. Verb.  (genetics) To cross a hybrid with one of its parents.
  2. Noun.  The act of such a crossing.
  3. Noun.  An individual produced by such a crossing.
  4. Noun.  (juggling) (alternative form of, back cross) .

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