Hybrid
['haɪbrɪd]
Definition
(noun.) (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; 'a mule is a cross between a horse and a donkey'.
(noun.) a composite of mixed origin; 'the vice-presidency is a hybrid of administrative and legislative offices'.
(adj.) produced by crossbreeding .
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Definition
(n.) The offspring of the union of two distinct species; an animal or plant produced from the mixture of two species. See Mongrel.
(a.) Produced from the mixture of two species; as, plants of hybrid nature.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Mule, mongrel.
a. Mongrel.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Mixed, impure, mongrel, mule
ANT:Pure, unmixed, thoroughbred
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Definition
n. an animal or plant produced from two different species: a mongrel: a mule: a word formed of elements from different languages.—adjs. Hy′brid Hyb′ridous produced from different species: mongrel.—adj. Hy′bridisable.—n. Hybridisā′tion.—v.t. and v.i. Hy′bridise to cause to interbreed and to interbreed.—-ns. Hybridis′er; Hy′bridism Hybrid′ity state of being hybrid.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A pooled issue.
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Examples
- Mr. Arnold Bennett puts forth a rather curious hybrid when he advises us to treat ourselves as free agents and everyone else as an automaton. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Such alone are the unimportant differences which Gartner is able to point out between hybrid and mongrel plants. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The sterility of first crosses and of their hybrid progeny has not been acquired through natural selection. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- There never before was seen on earth such a wonderful hybrid race as was thus produced. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- These facts show how completely the fertility of a hybrid may be independent of its external resemblance to either pure parent. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Hybrid plants produced from a reciprocal cross generally resemble each other closely, and so it is with mongrel plants from a reciprocal cross. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- When two species are crossed, one has sometimes a prepotent power of impressing its likeness on the hybrid. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- A double and parallel series of facts seems to throw much light on the sterility of species, when first crossed, and of their hybrid offspring. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Noble, for instance, informs me that he raises stocks for grafting from a hybrid between Rhod. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- First, for the sterility of species when crossed and of their hybrid offspring. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The variability, however, in the successive generations of mongrels is, perhaps, greater than in hybrids. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Many exotic plants have pollen utterly worthless, in the same condition as in the most sterile hybrids. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- We see this tendency to become striped most strongly displayed in hybrids from between several of the most distinct species. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The above view of the sterility of hybrids being caused by two constitutions being compounded into one has been strongly maintained by Max Wichura. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- In regard to the sterility of hybrids, in which the sexual elements are imperfectly developed, the case is somewhat different. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Altogether there is the closest identity in character and behaviour between illegitimate plants and hybrids. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- This greater variability in mongrels than in hybrids does not seem at all surprising. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- So it is with hybrids, for their offspring in successive generations are eminently liable to vary, as every experimentalist has observed. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The fertility, both of first crosses and of hybrids, is more easily affected by unfavourable conditions, than is that of pure species. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- We will now look a little closer at the probable nature of the differences between species which induce sterility in first crosses and in hybrids. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- It is not always equal in degree in a first cross and in the hybrids produced from this cross. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- From this extreme degree of sterility we have self-fertilised hybrids producing a greater and greater number of seeds up to perfect fertility. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Quatrefages states that the hybrids from two moths (Bombyx cynthia and arrindia) were proved in Paris to be fertile inter se for eight generations. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Why, it may even be asked, has the production of hybrids been permitted? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- With hybrids raised from the same seed-capsule the degree of sterility is innately variable, so it is in a marked manner with illegitimate plants. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
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