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Hybrid

adjective

Produced by crossbreeding. Synonym: intercrossed.

noun

A word that is composed of parts from different languages (e.g., 'monolingual' has a Greek prefix and a Latin root). Synonyms: loan-blend, loanblend.

A composite of mixed origin.

(genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species. Synonyms: cross, crossbreed.

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"Hybrid" Quotes from Famous Books

... lamarckiana, rest upon a very insecure foundation. The plant from which de Vries saw numerous "species"—his "mutations"—arise was not, as he assumed, a WILD SPECIES that had been introduced to Europe from America, but was probably a hybrid form which was first discovered in the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, and which does not appear to exist anywhere in America ...

— Darwin and Modern Science • A.C. Seward and Others

... and nurture of their ills. It was generally determined that in the next campaign Populism should stand upon its own feet; Democratic and Republican votes should be won by conversion of individuals to the cause rather than by hybrid amalgamation of parties and preelection agreements for dividing the spoils. But it was just this fusion which blinded the eyes of the old party leaders to the significance of the Populist returns. Democrats, with a clear majority of electoral votes, were not inclined to worry ...

— The Agrarian Crusade - A Chronicle of the Farmer in Politics • Solon J. Buck

... my temptations I have seen many hybrid beings, not only women-serpents and women-fishes, but beings still more confusedly formed such as men whose bodies were made out of a pot, a bell, a clock, a cupboard full of food and crockery, or even out of a house with doors and windows through which ...

— Penguin Island • Anatole France

... yaw-yawed in their speech like them; and they served out, with an enervated air, the little mouldy rations of political economy, on which they regaled their disciples. There never before was seen on earth such a wonderful hybrid race ...

— Hard Times • Charles Dickens*

... plants, or at least a great number of them, exhibit physiological characters—what are known as distinct species, structurally, being for the most part either altogether incompetent to breed one with another; or if they breed, the resulting mule, or hybrid, is unable to perpetuate its race with another hybrid of ...

— On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals • Thomas H. Huxley

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