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Produced from the mixture of two species; as, plants of hybrid nature.

The state or quality of being hybrid.

One who hybridizes.

Hybridism.

Capable of forming a hybrid, or of being subjected to a hybridizing process; capable of producing a hybrid by union with another species or stock. Hybridizable genera are rarer than is generally supposed, even in gardens where they are so often operated upon, under circumstances most favorable to the production of hybr…

The act of hybridizing, or the state of being hybridized.

To render hybrid; to produce by mixture of stocks.

One who hybridizes.

Same as Hybrid.

A hybrid whose parents differ by three pairs of contrasting Mendelian characters.

pure unit characters commonly existing singly or in pairs in the germ cells of Mendelian hybrids, and exhibited in varying proportion among the organisms themselves. Allelomorphs which under certain circumstances are themselves compound are called hypallelomorphs. See Mendel's law. -- Al*le`lo*mor"phic (#), a.…

A species of clover with pinkish or white flowers; Trifolium hybridum.

of breeds or stock, especially in cattle breeding; or the product of such intermixture; a hybrid of any kind. Toning down the ancient Viking into a sort of a cross between Paul Jones and Jeremy Diddler. Lord Dufferin.

Anything partaking of the natures of two different things; a hybrid.

dition of not generating or breeding freely; infertility; a form homogenesis in which the hybrids are sterile among themselves, but are fertile with members of either parent race.

owers; generation with full fertility between different species or races, specif. between hybrids of the first generation.

A plant which flowers or blossoms. Many hybrids are profuse and persistent flowerers. Darwin.

A hybrid between a stallion and an ass.

r words of one or more modern languages are intermixed with genuine Latin words, and with hybrid formed by adding Latin terminations to other roots.

A hybrid animal; specifically, one generated between an ass and a mare, sometimes a horse and a she-ass. See Hinny.