hybrid
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Noun (4)hybrids
- a word that is composed of parts from different languages (e.g., ‘monolingual’ has a Greek prefix and a Latin root)Synonyms: loanblendloan-blendType of word
- a composite of mixed origin“the vice-presidency is a hybrid of administrative and legislative offices”Type of complex, composite
- (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”Synonyms: crossbreedcrossType of organism, beingKinds monohybrid, dihybrid
- a car which runs on two power sources, usually an internal combustion engine and an electronic motorSynonyms: hybrid carType of car, auto
Adjective (1)
- produced by crossbreedingSynonyms: intercrossedOpposite purebredSimilar crossbred
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Translations
Noun crossbreed, hybrid organism
Adjective consisting of diverse components
- Spanish
- híbrido
- French
- hybride
- German
- hybrid
- Italian
- ibrido
- Portuguese
- híbrido
- Turkish
- melez
- Russian
- гибри́дный gibrídnyj
- Arabic
- هجين hajīn
- Chinese
- 混合 hùnhé
- Dutch
- hybride
8 more languages
- Polish
- hybrydowy
- Portuguese (PT)
- híbrido
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 混血 hùnxuè, hùnxuě, hùnxiě
- Catalan
- híbrid
- Finnish
- sekamuotoinen
- Georgian
- ჰიბრიდული hibriduli
- Hebrew
- הִיבְּרִידִי hibrídi
- Welsh
- croesryw
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: L. hybrida, hibrida, prob. allied to Gr. … wantonness (as if unbridled, lawless, unnatural), perh. akin to Gr. ὑπέρ over, E. over: cf. F. hybride.
1. Biology The offspring of the union of two animals or plants derived from recognizably different genetic lines, as two distinct species, or two strains of the same species with known genetic differences; an animal or plant produced from the mixture of two genetic lines. See Mongrel.
2. Philology A word composed of elements which belong to different languages.
3. anything derived by a mixture of components or characteristics from two distinctly different sources; as, a musical hybrid; a DNA-RNA hybrid.
1. Produced from the mixture of two genetically distinct strains; as, plants of hybrid nature.
2. derived by a mixture of characteristics from two distinctly different sources; as, a hybrid musical style; a hybrid DNA molecule.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: +PJC, 1913 supplement, GCIDE editors
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
A concurrent object-oriented language.
["Active Objects in Hybrid", O.M. Nierstrasz, SIGPLAN Notices 22(12):243-253 (OOPSLA '87) (Dec 1987)].
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