filial generation
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nounDefinition of FILIAL GENERATION
: a generation in a breeding experiment that is successive to a mating between parents of two distinctively different but usually relatively pure genotypes
First Known Use of FILIAL GENERATION
1902
fil·ial generation
noun \ˈfil-ē-əl-, ˈfil-yəl-\ (Medical Dictionary)Medical Definition of FILIAL GENERATION
: a generation in a breeding experiment that is successive to a parental generation—compare f1 generation, f2 generation
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