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单词 bigener
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bigenern.

Brit. /ˈbʌɪdʒᵻnə/, U.S. /ˈbaɪdʒənər/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin bigener.
Etymology: < classical Latin bigener produced from two different races, hybrid < bi- bi- comb. form + gener- , genus kind (see genus n.). Compare bigeneric adj., and earlier bigenerous adj.
Botany.
A hybrid produced by the crossing of plants of two different genera.In quot. 2003 figurative.
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1817 Bot. Reg. 3 195 Rhododendron hybridum; bigener.
1835 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. (ed. 2) ii. vi. 287 Bigeners, that is to say mules between different genera.
1915 Standard Cycl. Hort. III. 1618/1 Specific kinds of crosses are hybrids, between species; cross-breeds, between plants of the same species; half-hybrid, between a species and a variety of another species; bigener, between plants of different genera.
1981 Taxon 30 270 For the simple bigener Aporocactus × Epiphyllum a different name applies.
2003 R. G. Small in S. Linstead Text/Work xii. 269 This recasting of the moral compass is itself a device, a storyteller's step through the annals of an American original, if not an original American, another bigener bred of fact and fiction.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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