hybrid

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The action of the hybrid was as peculiar as his appearance.

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  1. noun Genetics The offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock, especially the offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties, species, or races.
  2. noun Something of mixed origin or composition.
  3. noun Something, such as a computer or power plant, having two kinds of components that produce the same or similar results.
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  • Since a volunteer crop from a hybrid is a segregating population, some of the plants will carry the Clearfield gene. —  Delta Farm Press RSS Feed
  • These lines, highly prophetic, add more and more evidence that this hybrid is the cylon god, or closely connected with him. —  Brad Ideas - Comments
  • "We all agreed that this hybrid was a really solid step in the right direction," —  Latest Articles
  • In a time of unstable gasoline prices, one might think a hybrid is the best way to go. —  Canada Free Press
  • Instead of a horrifying and intimidating ghoul with leathery wings, fur, fangs, and claws, the hybrid is a scrawny, shirtless doofus with long fingernails, black-gray skin, and greasy hair. —  DVD Verdict
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  1. Latin hibrida, hybrida, mongrel.

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  1. Formerly hybride; from French hybride = Spanish hibrido = Portuguese hybrido = Italian ibrido, from Latin hybrida, hibrida, ibrida, a mongrel, a hybrid. The spelling hybrida rests on the very doubtful assumption that the word is derived from Greek υ%36βρις (ὑβριδ-), insult, wantonness, outrage.
 

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