intergrading

Updated: May 21, 2025

This is so much the more probable as Linaria is a perennial herb, and the ancestors of a mutation might still be in a flowering condition together with their divergent offspring. But no such intermediates are on record. The peloric toad-flaxes are, as a rule, found surrounded by the normal type, but without intergrading forms.

Hugo de Vries - Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation

Passing by many interesting members of the psychological series of intergrading forms, we reach the familiar animals like the cat and dog and horse which display what is called intelligence. This is the power to learn by experience, and to improve the quality and promptitude of reactions to stimuli.

Henry Edward Crampton - The Doctrine of Evolution: Its Basis and Its Scope

If all the speakers of a given dialect were arranged in order in accordance with the degree of their conformity to average usage, there is little doubt that they would constitute a very finely intergrading series clustered about a well-defined center or norm.

Edward Sapir - Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech

They form a slight variety of what was formerly the ordinary plains bison, intergrading with it; on the whole they are darker in color, with longer, thicker hair, and in consequence with the appearance of being heavier-bodied and shorter-legged.

Theodore Roosevelt - Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches