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hybrid (enc)
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Hybrid| Noun | 1. | hybrid - a word that is composed of parts from different languages (e.g., `monolingual' has a Greek prefix and a Latin root)word - a unit of language that native speakers can identify; "words are the blocks from which sentences are made"; "he hardly said ten words all morning" Latin - any dialect of the language of ancient Rome Ellas, Greece, Hellenic Republic - a republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula; known for grapes and olives and olive oil | | | 2. | hybrid - a composite of mixed origin; "the vice-presidency is a hybrid of administrative and legislative offices"complex, composite - a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts; "the complex of shopping malls, houses, and roads created a new town" | | | 3. | hybrid - 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"organism, being - a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently crossbred - a hybrid (especially an animal produced by a cross between two pure breeds) dihybrid - a hybrid produced by parents that differ only at two gene loci that have two alleles each 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) | | | Adj. | 1. | hybrid - produced by crossbreedingcrossbred - bred from a mixture of breeds or strains | |
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