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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024hy•brid•ism (hī′bri diz′əm),USA pronunciation n. Also, hy•brid•i•ty (hī brid′i tē).USA pronunciation the quality or condition of being hybrid.- Geneticsthe production of hybrids.
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024hy•brid /ˈhaɪbrɪd/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Geneticsthe offspring of two animals or plants of different breeds, varieties, or species.
- anything of blended origins:The work is a hybrid of classical and rock music styles.
adj. [before a noun] - Geneticsbred or descended from two distinct breeds, varieties, or species.
- formed or made up of very different or unlike elements or parts.
hy•brid•ism, n. [uncountable] WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024hy•brid (hī′brid),USA pronunciation n. - the offspring of two animals or plants of different breeds, varieties, species, or genera, esp. as produced through human manipulation for specific genetic characteristics.
- a person or group of persons produced by the interaction or crossbreeding of two unlike cultures, traditions, etc.
- anything derived from heterogeneous sources, or composed of elements of different or incongruous kinds:a hybrid of the academic and business worlds.
- Oceanographya word composed of elements originally drawn from different languages, as television, whose components come from Greek and Latin.
adj. - bred from two distinct races, breeds, varieties, species, or genera.
- composite;
formed or composed of heterogeneous elements. - composed of elements originally drawn from different languages, as a word.
- Latin hybrida, hibrida a crossbred animal
- 1595–1605
- 5.See corresponding entry in Unabridged Hybrid, mongrel refer to animals or plants of mixed origin. Hybrid is the scientific term:hybrid corn; a hybrid variety of sheep.Mongrel, used originally of dogs to denote the offspring of crossings of different breeds, is now extended to other animals and to plants; it is usually deprecatory, as denoting mixed, nondescript, or degenerate breed or character:a mongrel pup.
- 5.See corresponding entry in Unabridged purebred, thoroughbred.
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