tall showy tropical American annual having hairy stems and long spikes of usually red flowers above leaves deeply flushed with purple; seeds often used as cereal

tall showy tropical American annual having hairy stems and long spikes of usually red flowers above leaves deeply flushed with purple; seeds often used as cereal

(genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species, A word whose elements are derived from different languages, adjective_ Produced from the mixture of two genetically distinct strains, erived by a mixture of characteristics from two distinctly different sources, produced by crossbreeding

designating the generation of organisms from which hybrid offspring are produced, relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent, Of or pertaining to a parent or to parents, noun_ A person fulfilling a parental role.