hybrid vigor

American  

noun

1. heterosis.

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hybrid vigor Scientific  

1. The increased vigor or general health, resistance to disease, and other superior qualities that are often manifested in hybrid organisms, especially plants and animals.

2. Compare inbreeding depression

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Etymology

Origin of hybrid vigor

First recorded in 1915–20

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Example Sentences

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hybrid vigor

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

Some day the principles of selected and controlled parentage underlying hybrid vigor may be utilized in producing superior nuts, as these principals are now so widely used in producing hybrid seed corn.

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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