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Example sentences for "both parent"

  • But it would, as I suspect, be more correct to say that the elements of both parent-species exist in every hybrid in a double state, namely, blended together and completely separate.

  • When two distinct races are crossed, it is notorious that the tendency in the offspring to revert to one or both parent-forms is strong, and endures for many generations.

  • The late Lord Powis imported some zebus and crossed them with common cattle in Shropshire; and I was assured by his steward that the cross-bred animals were perfectly fertile with both parent-stocks.

  • Throughout Europe, in different soils and under different climates, branches on this tree have repeatedly and suddenly reverted to both parent-species in their flowers and leaves.

  • Effects of crossing long-styled and short-styled oxlips with one another and with the two forms of both parent-species.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    both arms; both banks; both being; both cases; both chambers; both civil and criminal; both classes; both continents; both faces; both figures; both horse and foot; both husband and wife; both know; both legs; both officers and men; both parts; both political; both small and great; both their; both together; bother about; ever been; grace and; rose from; said eagerly; then sweeten