Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb backcross

1 sense of backcross

Sense 1
backcross -- (mate a hybrid of the first generation with one of its parents)
       => crossbreed, cross, hybridize, hybridise, interbreed -- (breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties; "cross a horse and a donkey"; "Mendel tried crossbreeding"; "these species do not interbreed")