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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. (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;
- Example: "a mule is a cross between a horse and a donkey"
[syn: hybrid, crossbreed, cross]


VERB (1)

1. breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties;
- Example: "cross a horse and a donkey"
- Example: "Mendel tried crossbreeding"
- Example: "these species do not interbreed"
[syn: crossbreed, cross, hybridize, hybridise, interbreed]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Crossbreed \Cross"breed`\ (-br[=e]d`), n. 1. A breed or an animal produced from parents of different breeds; a new variety, as of plants, combining the qualities of two parent varieties or stocks. [1913 Webster] 2. Anything partaking of the natures of two different things; a hybrid. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

crossbreed n 1: (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" [syn: hybrid, crossbreed, cross] v 1: breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties; "cross a horse and a donkey"; "Mendel tried crossbreeding"; "these species do not interbreed" [syn: crossbreed, cross, hybridize, hybridise, interbreed]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

60 Moby Thesaurus words for "crossbreed": Cape Colored, Eurasian, bastard, beget, breed, breed true, cattalo, citrange, copulate, cross, crossbred, engender, father, generate, get, griffe, half blood, half-bred, half-breed, half-caste, high yellow, hinny, hybrid, hybridize, inbreed, interbreed, intercross, ladino, liger, make love, mestee, mestiza, mestizo, metis, metisse, miscegenate, mixblood, mixed-blood, mongrel, mongrelize, mother, mulatto, mule, multiply, mustee, octoroon, outbreed, plumcot, procreate, proliferate, propagate, quadroon, quintroon, reproduce in kind, sambo, sire, tangelo, tigon, zebrass, zebrule