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Definition of Hybridize
1. Verb. Breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties. "These species do not interbreed"
Generic synonyms: Breed
Specialized synonyms: Backcross
Derivative terms: Cross, Cross, Crossing, Crossbreed, Hybridisation, Hybrid, Hybrid, Hybridization, Hybridizing, Interbreeding, Interbreeding
Definition of Hybridize
1. v. t. To render hybrid; to produce by mixture of stocks.
2. v. i. To produce hybrid offspring; to interbreed; to cross.
Definition of Hybridize
1. Verb. (transitive) to cross-breed animals or plants to form hybrids ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) to construct a hybrid word from elements of different languages ¹
3. Verb. (physics) to combine atomic orbitals mathematically to form hybrid orbitals ¹
4. Verb. (biochemistry) to combine complementary subunits of multiple biological macromolecules ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hybridize
1. [v -IZED, -IZING, -IZES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hybridize
Literary usage of Hybridize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1859)
"will of course hybridize and exchange whatever properties they possess.
The saccharine secretions of one variety will be diminished by hybridation with ..."
2. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"... the flowers red, purple, or rose-color, rarely white or yellowish, in su Many
hybridize ! — L. Gen. ed. G, 409 (where the char, is pappus plumosus. in ..."
3. Darwin and After Darwin: An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a by George John Romanes, Conwy Lloyd Morgan (1897)
"is its original inability to hybridize.] On the other hand, in species or groups
ready to hybridize [or capable of hybridizing], the fixation of a new ..."
4. Report of the Secretary for Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1868)
"Although it is a general rule, previously laid down, that species of the same
genus will not hybridize unies:, nearly allied, and that the cases in which ..."
5. The New England Farmer by Samuel W. Cole (1862)
"I have never as yet known the crook-neck to hybridize with the pumpkin, melons,
cucumber«, Sea., although planted side by side. Salem, March, 1862. ..."
6. The Propagation of Plants: Giving the Principles which Govern the by Andrew Samuel Fuller (1887)
"For instance, no one has ever been able to hybridize or produce a hybrid plant
between the Alpine Strawberry of both Europe and America and any other of the ..."
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