Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Produced by the mating of individuals of different breeds, varieties, or species.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Produced by crossbreeding; bred from different species or varieties; hybrid; mongrel.
- noun 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Stock Breeding) Produced by mixing distinct breeds; mongrel.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Produced by
breeding from twobreeds ,varieties orspecies . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
crossbreed .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective bred from parents of different varieties or species
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Examples
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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 Burke, Jan 1993
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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.
Review of "Empire of Dreams," Scott Eyman's biography of Cecil B. DeMille Post 2010
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And if she was from that alternative universe ... she could be a few generations removed ... or crossbred with yet another alien race.
Doctor Who Smattering of Spoilers honorh 2009
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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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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.
The Short List 2012
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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.
Review of "Empire of Dreams," Scott Eyman's biography of Cecil B. DeMille Adam Bernstein 2010
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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.
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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.
Rabid Reads: "A Darkness Forged in Fire" by Chris Evans 2009
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“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.”
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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.
These Birds Aren't Spring Chickens, But People Are Gobbling Them Up Geoffrey A. Fowler 2011
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