hybrid
Other forms: hybrids
A hybrid is a mixture of two different things, resulting in something that has a little bit of both — like the rare zedonk, a hybrid of a donkey and a zebra.
The word hybrid gets thrown around often these days — ever heard of hybrid cars that run on both electricity and fuel? Or hybrid films that are half animation, half live action? But hybrid is really most at home in the realm of genetics and crossbreeding. It actually comes to us from the Latin hybrida, meaning the offspring of two dissimilar animals, specifically a tame sow and a wild boar.
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(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
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synonyms:
cross, crossbreed
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types:
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dihybrid
a hybrid produced by parents that differ only at two gene loci that have two alleles each
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monohybrid
a hybrid produced by crossing parents that are homozygous except for a single gene locus that has two alleles (as in Mendel's experiments with garden peas)
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dihybrid
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a composite of mixed origin
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a word that is composed of parts from different languages (e.g., `monolingual' has a Greek prefix and a Latin root)
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synonyms:
loan-blend, loanblend
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type of:
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word
a unit of language that native speakers can identify
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word
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a vehicle that has both an electric motor and a gasoline engine
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type of:
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automotive vehicle, motor vehicle
a self-propelled wheeled vehicle that does not run on rails
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automotive vehicle, motor vehicle
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produced by crossbreeding
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synonyms:
intercrossed
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crossbred
bred from parents of different varieties or species
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crossbred
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consisting of elements that are not of the same kind or nature
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synonyms:
heterogeneous, heterogenous
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diversified
having variety of character or form or components; or having increased variety
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assorted, miscellaneous, mixed, motley, sundry
consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds
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disparate
including markedly dissimilar elements
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inhomogeneous, nonuniform
not homogeneous
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different
unlike in nature, quality, form, or degree
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varied
characterized by variety
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antonyms:
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homogeneous, homogenous
all of the same or similar kind or nature
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undiversified
not diversified
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consistent, uniform
the same throughout in structure or composition
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solid
of one substance or character throughout
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self-colored, self-coloured, solid
of the same color throughout
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homogenised, homogenized
made homogeneous
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uniform, unvarying
always the same; showing a single form or character in all occurrences
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same
closely similar or comparable in kind or quality or quantity or degree
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diversified
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having two components or systems that serve the same function
/ˌhaɪˈbrɪd/
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