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Definition of hybrid in English: hybridnoun ˈhʌɪbrɪdˈhaɪˌbrɪd 1Biology
The offspring of two plants or animals of different species or varieties, such as a mule. the bird was a hybrid of a goose and a swan Example sentencesExamples - It's actually a hybrid between two species, so it's rather like crossing a donkey with a horse: what you get is strong but it's completely sterile.
- Because of a doubling of their chromosome number, these hybrids could no longer cross with the parental species but only among themselves - which they did not hesitate to do.
- The animals were hybrids of different breeds, of which one was predominant.
- Many of the decorative species and hybrids are reasonably hardy plants.
- Red varieties derived from hybrids of all these species are also available today.
Synonyms cross, cross-breed, mixed-breed mixture, blend, meld, amalgam, amalgamation, combination, composite, compound, conglomerate, fusion, synthesis informal mash-up 2A thing made by combining two different elements. jungle is a hybrid of reggae and house music Example sentencesExamples - Three existing aerial appliances would be replaced by an enhanced fleet of four custom-built combined pump and aerial hybrids.
- It was a curious hybrid of old and new that honoured neither.
- This footage is no doubt chilling, but I have to tell you now, it's actually a hybrid of fact and fiction.
- ‘I thought he'd better get someone from Hollywood,’ she says, still talking in that strange accent, a hybrid of Iceland and London.
- It currently looks like a sad hybrid of a luscious, fully clothed version of a large tree and an ultra-pruned incredibly stylish and completely unnatural super-arty bonsai.
- Somebody else created the hybrid of rock and hip-hop!
- This recommendation represents a hybrid of conservative and progressive elements.
- The ‘revolution of roses’ on 22 November was a hybrid of spontaneity and careful preparation.
- A unique hybrid of domestic and international law, it will try the 30 ‘most responsible’ individuals involved in the war crimes.
- Their clothes are a hybrid of western department store cast-offs and items they've woven themselves.
- Her course research into the evolution of plastics in fashion had inspired her to create a bizarre hybrid of plasticised velvet, from which she produced unusual fashion handbags.
- To this end, firms have created hybrids combining elements of free code with code that is licensed for cash.
- With no lineouts, no meaningful scrums and all players having to be greyhounds, it's a hybrid of rugby union.
- Their sound: a hybrid of punk-inspired speed metal and simple-yet-provocative lyrics.
- I'm trying to write stuff that's more about a hybrid of these elements than the specifics of these elements themselves.
- We've got live drums and programmed drums, we recorded things both digitally and analog, so the album's kind of a hybrid of the two.
- So law enforcement's role becomes instead a hybrid of intelligence-gathering and traditional investigation.
- ‘Invented is a grandiose term,’ he says, explaining his hybrid of a trapeze and the industry-standard theatre flying devices.
- I mean this episode tonight is a hybrid of different TV shows.
- ‘It's a wonderful hybrid of poetry and fiction,’ she says.
Synonyms mixture, blend, mingling, combination, compound, fusion, composition, concoction, brew, alloy, merger, union, amalgamation, amalgam, coalition, cross - 2.1 A word formed from elements taken from different languages, for example television (tele- from Greek, vision from Latin).
Example sentencesExamples - An example of a Spanish-Aztec hybrid word is chibola, the Nicaraguan word for bottled soda.
- That is a hybrid between the words create and reality that you made up.
- In present-day usage, despite Fowler's strictures, concern for classical and linguistic purity is minimal and the coining of etymological hybrids is casual and massive.
- 2.2 A car with a petrol engine and an electric motor, each of which can propel it.
Example sentencesExamples - Having driven the Japanese hybrids I'm not sure U.S. drivers will embrace the lower power output of these vehicles.
- Officials will not give specific figures but say fuel economy will be equivalent to that of a compact car, and the hybrid will produce fewer emissions than a standard SUV.
- It will be a rear wheel drive full hybrid making it able to travel at low speeds under electric propulsion alone.
- There are many corporations offering incentives such as free parking to those who drive hybrids.
- The success of hybrids can be attributed to five key factors.
adjective ˈhʌɪbrɪdˈhaɪˌbrɪd 1Of mixed character; composed of different elements. hybrid diesel-electric buses Example sentencesExamples - Some comments really do conjure hybrid cities and mixed realities.
- Claiming fusion as the essence of Nigerian modernism, the curators selected works of visual art that exhibited a hybrid character.
- In Scotland, the Anglo-Normans were one more element in an already hybrid kingdom.
- She creates wildly beautiful hybrid work that blends dance, music, story telling and theatre.
- It is distinctively hybrid in character: the EU's largest central administration and main policy manager, but also a source of political and policy direction.
- For many the gaming elements of a hybrid device could be a turn-off.
- But the city's polyglot hybrid culture also made it a gateway for young Indians from the hinterland to urban India in general.
- But at the same time, he teases out of the monitor a hybrid video stream composed of diverse elements, synthesized and reordered.
- It's something else - a hybrid text - combining elements of fiction, autobiography, philosophy, poetry and prose.
- That hybrid culture is unspoken, yet it is still pretty vibrant - even if few educated people will be immediately willing to admit it.
- Other hybrid composites have a combination of colloidal and fine particles, and have better compressive and tensile strength properties than the microfine variety.
- It takes place in great modern cities, in regions, the Mediterranean region or California, of deeply hybrid cultures and economies.
- The hybrid buses have small diesel turbines which re-charge the batteries as the bus runs a long.
- What strikes me about the passage is its hybrid character.
- Its hybrid character was unrecognized for many years, but it in fact showed the way in which vine-growing in the eastern United States would be developed.
- New adapted material systems like natural fiber composites, hybrid structures of metals, polymers and ceramics increasingly gain meaning in future.
- One can use a structure that promotes a combination of research elements to form a hybrid research method.
- Advanced technology buses are now available that do not idle and that have even lower emissions and greater fuel efficiency than the current hybrid buses, which idle.
- I'm a product of a hybrid culture, so my aesthetic could never be solely based on the canon of English culture.
- Because of the hybrid nature of the elements, the imagery on these pieces has often been characterized as decorative and dismissed as lacking substantive meaning.
- 1.1 Bred as a hybrid from different species or varieties.
Example sentencesExamples - With the many new hybrid varieties that have been developed, your choices are myriad.
- The species marketed are new hybrid varieties.
- And it has also come at a time when the country is fighting to develop hybrid varieties that are tolerant to drought and other stressful weather conditions.
- You should at least be able to count on your seeds to be consistent, and so seed-saving should not be applied to hybrid varieties.
- In addition, the genetic composition of the hybrid populations, the mating pattern, and population genetic structure also require quantification.
- Most of the popular hybrid corn varieties grown in the area also have high yields of the fermentable starch desired for dry-mill ethanol plants.
- This has resulted in the development of a variety of hybrid forms that have had marginal impact upon product-based development, whose needs they have been configured to meet.
- One advantage of male-sterile plants is in the production of hybrid varieties of some species that currently are difficult and expensive to produce in quantity.
- In general hybrid varieties provide the best production of central heads and better performance in hot weather.
- Seed markets are generally built around hybrid varieties, which do not reproduce and so force farmers to purchase new seeds every season.
- Usually, the hybrid variety is sold only between August and March and the regular yellow cocoon is sold in the summer months.
- For farmers the focus was on some of the latest developments in producing hybrid varieties of vegetables and fruits.
- These firms provide hybrid varieties of rabbits, whose meat and processed skin are exported.
- There are well over 300 species of Dianthus, including hundreds of hybrid varieties.
- This apart, even garden implements, organic manure and hybrid flower varieties were also on display.
- Yet many open-pollinated and hybrid varieties that have no listed disease resistances do have good resistance to certain pathogens.
- In my garden both the wildling and its hybrid offspring, in shades of pink and red, seed around on my heavy, acid soil.
- The debate over whether or not to use hybrid varieties becomes very different when you switch from big-time agriculture to home gardening.
- The 1970s brought the introduction and rapid spread of hybrid cotton varieties.
- They also produce yields as much as 10 per cent higher than the best local hybrid maize varieties and are more tolerant of biotic and abiotic stresses.
Synonyms composite, cross-bred, interbred mixed, compound, combined, blended, mongrel, impure
Origin Early 17th century (as a noun): from Latin hybrida 'offspring of a tame sow and wild boar, child of a freeman and slave, etc.'. Definition of hybrid in US English: hybridnounˈhaɪˌbrɪdˈhīˌbrid 1Biology
The offspring of two plants or animals of different species or varieties, such as a mule (a hybrid of a donkey and a horse) a hybrid of wheat and rye Example sentencesExamples - Many of the decorative species and hybrids are reasonably hardy plants.
- The animals were hybrids of different breeds, of which one was predominant.
- Red varieties derived from hybrids of all these species are also available today.
- Because of a doubling of their chromosome number, these hybrids could no longer cross with the parental species but only among themselves - which they did not hesitate to do.
- It's actually a hybrid between two species, so it's rather like crossing a donkey with a horse: what you get is strong but it's completely sterile.
Synonyms cross, cross-breed, mixed-breed 2A thing made by combining two different elements; a mixture. the final text is a hybrid of the stage play and the film Example sentencesExamples - ‘Invented is a grandiose term,’ he says, explaining his hybrid of a trapeze and the industry-standard theatre flying devices.
- I mean this episode tonight is a hybrid of different TV shows.
- We've got live drums and programmed drums, we recorded things both digitally and analog, so the album's kind of a hybrid of the two.
- Their sound: a hybrid of punk-inspired speed metal and simple-yet-provocative lyrics.
- The ‘revolution of roses’ on 22 November was a hybrid of spontaneity and careful preparation.
- I'm trying to write stuff that's more about a hybrid of these elements than the specifics of these elements themselves.
- It was a curious hybrid of old and new that honoured neither.
- Their clothes are a hybrid of western department store cast-offs and items they've woven themselves.
- ‘It's a wonderful hybrid of poetry and fiction,’ she says.
- This footage is no doubt chilling, but I have to tell you now, it's actually a hybrid of fact and fiction.
- To this end, firms have created hybrids combining elements of free code with code that is licensed for cash.
- Her course research into the evolution of plastics in fashion had inspired her to create a bizarre hybrid of plasticised velvet, from which she produced unusual fashion handbags.
- A unique hybrid of domestic and international law, it will try the 30 ‘most responsible’ individuals involved in the war crimes.
- This recommendation represents a hybrid of conservative and progressive elements.
- With no lineouts, no meaningful scrums and all players having to be greyhounds, it's a hybrid of rugby union.
- ‘I thought he'd better get someone from Hollywood,’ she says, still talking in that strange accent, a hybrid of Iceland and London.
- It currently looks like a sad hybrid of a luscious, fully clothed version of a large tree and an ultra-pruned incredibly stylish and completely unnatural super-arty bonsai.
- So law enforcement's role becomes instead a hybrid of intelligence-gathering and traditional investigation.
- Three existing aerial appliances would be replaced by an enhanced fleet of four custom-built combined pump and aerial hybrids.
- Somebody else created the hybrid of rock and hip-hop!
Synonyms mixture, blend, mingling, combination, compound, fusion, composition, concoction, brew, alloy, merger, union, amalgamation, amalgam, coalition, cross - 2.1 A word formed from elements taken from different languages, for example television (tele- from Greek, vision from Latin).
Example sentencesExamples - In present-day usage, despite Fowler's strictures, concern for classical and linguistic purity is minimal and the coining of etymological hybrids is casual and massive.
- That is a hybrid between the words create and reality that you made up.
- An example of a Spanish-Aztec hybrid word is chibola, the Nicaraguan word for bottled soda.
- 2.2 A car with a gasoline engine and an electric motor, each of which can propel it.
Example sentencesExamples - Having driven the Japanese hybrids I'm not sure U.S. drivers will embrace the lower power output of these vehicles.
- There are many corporations offering incentives such as free parking to those who drive hybrids.
- It will be a rear wheel drive full hybrid making it able to travel at low speeds under electric propulsion alone.
- The success of hybrids can be attributed to five key factors.
- Officials will not give specific figures but say fuel economy will be equivalent to that of a compact car, and the hybrid will produce fewer emissions than a standard SUV.
adjectiveˈhaɪˌbrɪdˈhīˌbrid 1Of mixed character; composed of mixed parts. Mexico's hybrid postconquest culture Example sentencesExamples - It is distinctively hybrid in character: the EU's largest central administration and main policy manager, but also a source of political and policy direction.
- Because of the hybrid nature of the elements, the imagery on these pieces has often been characterized as decorative and dismissed as lacking substantive meaning.
- Other hybrid composites have a combination of colloidal and fine particles, and have better compressive and tensile strength properties than the microfine variety.
- What strikes me about the passage is its hybrid character.
- That hybrid culture is unspoken, yet it is still pretty vibrant - even if few educated people will be immediately willing to admit it.
- For many the gaming elements of a hybrid device could be a turn-off.
- I'm a product of a hybrid culture, so my aesthetic could never be solely based on the canon of English culture.
- But the city's polyglot hybrid culture also made it a gateway for young Indians from the hinterland to urban India in general.
- But at the same time, he teases out of the monitor a hybrid video stream composed of diverse elements, synthesized and reordered.
- Some comments really do conjure hybrid cities and mixed realities.
- Claiming fusion as the essence of Nigerian modernism, the curators selected works of visual art that exhibited a hybrid character.
- It's something else - a hybrid text - combining elements of fiction, autobiography, philosophy, poetry and prose.
- Its hybrid character was unrecognized for many years, but it in fact showed the way in which vine-growing in the eastern United States would be developed.
- In Scotland, the Anglo-Normans were one more element in an already hybrid kingdom.
- Advanced technology buses are now available that do not idle and that have even lower emissions and greater fuel efficiency than the current hybrid buses, which idle.
- The hybrid buses have small diesel turbines which re-charge the batteries as the bus runs a long.
- She creates wildly beautiful hybrid work that blends dance, music, story telling and theatre.
- It takes place in great modern cities, in regions, the Mediterranean region or California, of deeply hybrid cultures and economies.
- New adapted material systems like natural fiber composites, hybrid structures of metals, polymers and ceramics increasingly gain meaning in future.
- One can use a structure that promotes a combination of research elements to form a hybrid research method.
- 1.1 Bred as a hybrid from different species or varieties.
Example sentencesExamples - Seed markets are generally built around hybrid varieties, which do not reproduce and so force farmers to purchase new seeds every season.
- There are well over 300 species of Dianthus, including hundreds of hybrid varieties.
- Most of the popular hybrid corn varieties grown in the area also have high yields of the fermentable starch desired for dry-mill ethanol plants.
- One advantage of male-sterile plants is in the production of hybrid varieties of some species that currently are difficult and expensive to produce in quantity.
- For farmers the focus was on some of the latest developments in producing hybrid varieties of vegetables and fruits.
- The debate over whether or not to use hybrid varieties becomes very different when you switch from big-time agriculture to home gardening.
- In my garden both the wildling and its hybrid offspring, in shades of pink and red, seed around on my heavy, acid soil.
- They also produce yields as much as 10 per cent higher than the best local hybrid maize varieties and are more tolerant of biotic and abiotic stresses.
- You should at least be able to count on your seeds to be consistent, and so seed-saving should not be applied to hybrid varieties.
- With the many new hybrid varieties that have been developed, your choices are myriad.
- And it has also come at a time when the country is fighting to develop hybrid varieties that are tolerant to drought and other stressful weather conditions.
- This apart, even garden implements, organic manure and hybrid flower varieties were also on display.
- These firms provide hybrid varieties of rabbits, whose meat and processed skin are exported.
- In general hybrid varieties provide the best production of central heads and better performance in hot weather.
- The 1970s brought the introduction and rapid spread of hybrid cotton varieties.
- Yet many open-pollinated and hybrid varieties that have no listed disease resistances do have good resistance to certain pathogens.
- In addition, the genetic composition of the hybrid populations, the mating pattern, and population genetic structure also require quantification.
- The species marketed are new hybrid varieties.
- Usually, the hybrid variety is sold only between August and March and the regular yellow cocoon is sold in the summer months.
- This has resulted in the development of a variety of hybrid forms that have had marginal impact upon product-based development, whose needs they have been configured to meet.
Synonyms composite, cross-bred, interbred
Origin Early 17th century (as a noun): from Latin hybrida ‘offspring of a tame sow and wild boar, child of a freeman and slave, etc’. |