hybrid vigor
Americannoun
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The increased vigor or general health, resistance to disease, and other superior qualities that are often manifested in hybrid organisms, especially plants and animals.
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Compare inbreeding depression
Etymology
Origin of hybrid vigor
First recorded in 1915–20
Example Sentences
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Hybridization may also have brought "hybrid vigor," where a hybrid organism is more vigorous than either of its parents.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 30, 2023
Geneticists have proposed several theories about the cause of hybrid vigor, but no definitive explanation has emerged.
From Science Magazine ● Jul. 29, 2021
Obviously, any workplace that doesn’t attain some threshold of hybrid vigor in terms of all kinds of diversity—gender, race, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status—is probably going to be inferior to those that do.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2016
But the neat, perfectly formed, soft-domed roses also remind me of hybrid vigor, or heterosis, a term used in genetics.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 3, 2014
This is a manifestation of hybrid vigor, or heterosis.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948 by Northern Nut Growers Association
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