rehybridizev.
/riːˈhʌɪbrᵻdʌɪz/, U.S. /riˈhaɪbrəˌdaɪz/ intransitive. To hybridize again (in various senses). Also occasionally transitive.
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1894 Bull. Vermont Agric. Exper. Station No. 41. 49 The willows hybridize and rehybridize so frequently.
1930 Sci. News Let. 4 Jan. 5/3 Sometimes two pairs will be crossed to produce hybrids, and these two hybrid strains re-hybridized with each other.
1952 E. Anderson Plants, Man & Life xi. 201 This [sc. Helianthus bolanderi] in turn hybridized and rehybridized with annuus.
1970 Jrnl. Molecular Biol. 51 661 The RNA..did not rehybridize with DNA at a detectable level.
1981 P. Sykes Guidebk. to Mechanism in Org. Chem. (ed. 5) xii. 333 The p orbitals on the terminal carbon atoms of the conjugated system..will have to rehybridise to sp3 orbitals.
2005 C. Tudge Secret Life Trees xii. 281 The species in place A all arose from a single ancestor, who arrived there fairly recently, found the place agreeable, and diverged rapidly (and perhaps re-hybridized).
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