filial generation
noun
: a generation in a breeding experiment that is successive to a mating between parents of two distinctively different but usually relatively pure genotypes
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filial generation
noun
fil·ial generation
ˈfil-ē-əl-, ˈfil-yəl- 
: a generation in a breeding experiment that is successive to a parental generation compare f1 generation, f2 generation
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