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hybridism
  1. The state of being hybrid.
  2. The production of hybrids by cross-breeding.
  3. (linguistics) The formation of a hybrid, a word from elements of different languages.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Older accounts of species had them able to change through hybridism or in ways that had to do with the nature of generation.”
      “Recent work on material culture and social history offers new avenues for understanding this phenomenon of artistic hybridism.”
      “To add them to words of other than of Greek origin is to be guilty of hybridism.”
hybrid
  1. (biology) Offspring resulting from cross-breeding different entities, e.g. two different species or two purebred parent strains.
  2. Something of mixed origin or composition; often, a tool or technology that combines the benefits of formerly separate tools or technologies.
    1. (linguistics) A word whose elements are derived from different languages.
    2. A hybrid vehicle (especially a car), one that runs on both fuel (gasoline/diesel) and electricity (battery or energy from the sun).
    3. (cycling) A bicycle that is a compromise between a road bike and a mountain bike.
    4. (golf) A golf club that combines the characteristics of an iron and a wood.
    5. An electronic circuit constructed of individual devices bonded to a substrate or PCB.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The car is a hybrid of Mercury and Cadillac parts.”
      “In this pond, the growth rate of the hybrid was compared to the parental species under similar environmental conditions.”
hybridization
  1. The act of hybridizing, or the state of being hybridized.
    1. (chemistry) The linear combination of atomic orbitals in a molecule to form hybrid orbitals.
    2. (botany) The process of breeding a mixed offspring from two different strains or species of plant.
  2. (transport) the conversion of a fleet of vehicles to hybrids.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “High-level amplification was revealed by comparative genomic hybridization.”
      “More recently, however, several cloned chromosome 4 genes have been localized using in situ hybridization.”
      “Sample workup, hybridization, and analysis were performed as described previously.”
hybridizability
hybridist
  1. A horticulturist who hybridizes plants.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The Wake's hybridist nature extends beyond genre, even beyond portmanteau words, indeed to the most atomic level of text.”
      “This quirk of the sweet pea allows the hybridist to select parents and make his own crosses in his own garden.”
hybridity
  1. The state of being hybrid; hybridism.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The city's vibrant and diverse art scene is a testament to the hybridity found in its multicultural population.”
      “Their very hybridity and instability make them difficult to represent through static models and maps, which at best represent partial truths.”
      “Let us grant Goffman's contention that marginalized, diasporic cultures are transgressive in nature and lead to cultural hybridity.”
hybridisation
  1. Alternative form of hybridization
  2. Examples:
    1. “There are successful stories of producing floriferous plants with an unusual mixture of colours by hybridisation techniques.”
      “The diversity of rice may be damaged and undesirable hybridisation could result in wild rice producing herbicide-resistance genes.”
      “He carried out experimental work on the hybridisation of zebras and horses.”
hybridiser
  1. Alternative form of hybridizer
hybridizer
  1. One who hybridizes.
  2. Examples:
    1. “This year marks the centennial of the introduction of the venerable variety which was unveiled in England in 1899 by hybridizer John Kendall.”
      “I know one hybridizer who's trying to genetically modify an iris to get a red, but we don't believe in modifying.”
      “The plant hybridizer who consciously merges two different protoplasmic streams.”
hybridizations
hybridisations
  1. plural of hybridisation
hybridizers
  1. plural of hybridizer
hybridisers
  1. plural of hybridiser
hybridisms
hybridists
  1. plural of hybridist
hybridities
hybrids
  1. plural of hybrid
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Given these figures and the increased complexity of hybrids, they do not seem to be such a quantum leap forward.”
      “Then, Spinella says, the shift into hybrids and smaller vehicles would accelerate.”
      “Valved horns were permitted, in the light of Wagner's own equivocation about them, joining those valved horn hybrids known as Wagner tubas.”
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