Definition of Heterasis
||Het`e*ro"sis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr.
&?; alteration, fr. &?; other, different.] (Rhet.) 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?" Aytoun.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- (genetics) The tendency of cross-breeding to produce an animal or plant with a greater hardiness than its parents; hybrid vigour
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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