hybridizableadj.
Capable of hybridization.
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bigenerous1610
hybridan1623
mongrel1633
hybridous1691
mule1728
hybrid1775
cross-bred1856
hybridizablea1864
paragenesic1864
hybridized1872
cross1886
monohybrid1903
outbred1903
intergeneric1921
polyhybrid1922
reticulate1938
trihybrid1941
inter-strain1950
a1864 J. D. Hooker in Webster's Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. (1890) Hybridizable genera are rarer than is generally supposed.
1871 W. T. Dyer in Jrnl. Bot., Brit. & Foreign 9 304 Willows are hybridizable.
1893 Romanes Let. in Life (1895) iv. 332 Its constituent species being freely hybridisable.
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