Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Produced by the mating of individuals of different breeds, varieties, or species.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Produced by crossbreeding; bred from different species or varieties; hybrid; mongrel.
- n. In biology, the offspring produced by the crossing of parents which exhibit antagonistic or mutually exclusive characters, such as blackness and whiteness, tall-ness and shortness, which do not blend. The generative cells of a cross-bred are held to be of two sorts—those that confer upon descendants the characteristics of one parent and those that confer the characteristics of the other.
Wiktionary
- adj. Produced by
breeding from two breeds, varieties or species. - v. simple past tense and past participle of crossbreed.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Produced by mixing distinct breeds; mongrel.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. bred from parents of different varieties or species
Examples
“He just sat there, with an expression crossbred between reverence and desire, whenever some big old gal got up to shake and shimmy.”
Goodnight, Irene
“Our dominant “Christians” are the lineal descendants of originally German Anabaptists crossbred with a strain of militant Calvinism brought over by the good folks of Massachusetts Bay Colony, Inc. and marinated in propaganda about American Exceptionalism.”
““Our dominant “Christians” are the lineal descendants of originally German Anabaptists crossbred with a strain of militant Calvinism brought over by the good folks of Massachusetts Bay Colony, Inc. and marinated in propaganda about American Exceptionalism.””
“He crossbred visual panache and hedonistic flair, notably in "Sign of the Cross" (1932), with a lesbian dance sequence, a lithe Claudette Colbert bathing in milk, and Charles Laughton playing an extravagantly gay Nero.”
The Washington Post: Review of "Empire of Dreams," Scott Eyman's biography of Cecil B. DeMille
“He crossbred visual panache and hedonistic flair, notably in "Sign of the Cross" (1932), with a lesbian dance sequence, a lithe Claudette Colbert bathing in milk and Charles Laughton playing an extravagantly gay Nero.”
The Washington Post: Review of "Empire of Dreams," Scott Eyman's biography of Cecil B. DeMille
“So, while he's off in the woods with his pet bengar, Jir -- think Lassie crossbred with a chainsaw -- the fabled Red Star has fallen to the earth, regarded as a long lost magic and unlimited power to whomever possesses it.”
“At some point, early colonists crossbred smaller European-bred stock with American wild turkeys to produce hearty but tame breeds such as the Standard Bronze.”
The Wall Street Journal: These Birds Aren't Spring Chickens, But People Are Gobbling Them Up
“Gotye, who in a high vocal register can sound like Peter Gabriel or Sting, recorded this album in his parents' barn near Melbourne, where he crossbred electronic elements with homespun sounds.”
“And if she was from that alternative universe ... she could be a few generations removed ... or crossbred with yet another alien race.”
“Cesar Millan has rehabilitated hundreds of problem pooches over the years, but tonight's episode marks a first for the canine-counselor extraordinaire, who finds out whether his techniques will hold up in the wild when he works with three dogs that have been crossbred with wolves.”
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