Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or condition of being hybrid; the character of a hybrid. Also
hybridity . - noun The act of hybridizing; the production or formation of hybrids of any kind.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being hybrid.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the state of being
hybrid - noun the production of hybrids by
cross-breeding - noun linguistics the formation of a
word from elements of differentlanguages
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Examples
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Thus the goat breeds with the sheep, and may therefore serve as the text for a dissertation on hybridism, which is accordingly given in the preface to this animal.
Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin Samuel Butler 1868
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Thus the goat breeds with the sheep, and may therefore serve as the text for a dissertation on hybridism, which is accordingly given in the preface to this animal.
Selections from Previous Works and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals Samuel Butler 1868
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I am guessing that Robert Sawyer also based the above average intelligence of this hybrid chimpanzee on some recent news stories that hybridism between the branch that produced early hominids and the branch that produced chimpanzees may have been produced early humans and perhaps is a cause of the beginning of human intelligence.
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He wanders off topic, though, into areas like hybridism and geographical distribution, and I found those chapters much tougher going.
January Books 5) The Wee Free Men, by Terry Pratchett liberaliser 2010
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We have Cuvier and the mummies; M. Roulin and the domesticated animals of America; the difficulties presented by hybridism and by Palaeontology; Darwinism a
Essays 2007
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Recent results suggest that hybridism has special difficulties of its own.
Truthlikeness Oddie, Graham 2007
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‘He represents in little India in transition — the monstrous hybridism of East and West,’ the Russian replied.
Kim 2003
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I have now been three whole months on one chapter on hybridism!
Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 James Marchant
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To the second category belong all cases of hybridism, of cross breed, and in all probability the new varieties and forms, such as the memorable one of the black-shouldered peacock.
On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart
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Albinoism or cucosis does not necessarily imply hybridism.
Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject E. N. [Editor] Elliott
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