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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See the extracts and hybrid.
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								It has been supposed to be a seminal hybrid or graft-hybrid between C. laburnum and C. purpureus. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845 
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								To sum up the foregoing facts: the statement that _Cytisus adami_ originated as a graft-hybrid is so precise that it can hardly be rejected, and, as we have just seen, some analogous facts render the statement to a certain extent probable. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845 
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								We will now consider the few facts which have been recorded in support of the belief that a variety when grafted or budded on another variety sometimes affects the whole stock, or at the point of junction gives rise to a bud, or graft-hybrid, which partakes of the characters of both stock and scion. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845 
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								In regard to the bizzarria, many authors believe that it is a graft-hybrid; Gallesio on the other hand thinks that it is an ordinary hybrid, with the habit of partially reverting {392} by buds to the two parent-forms; and we have seen in the last chapter that the species in this genus often cross spontaneously. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845 
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								The most reliable instance known to me of the formation of a graft-hybrid is one, recorded by Mr. Poynter, [927] who assures me, in a letter of the entire accuracy of the statement, _Rosa Devoniensis_ had been budded some years previously on a white Banksian rose; and from the much enlarged point of junction, whence the Devoniensis and The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845 
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								He has also succeeded in making a true graft-hybrid between two varieties of potatoes, in which I failed. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 Charles Darwin 1845 
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								If I had succeeded in making a graft-hybrid of the potato, I had intended to raise seedlings from the graft-hybrid and from the two parent-forms (excluding insects) and carefully compare the offspring. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 Charles Darwin 1845 
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								a change of this kind cannot be considered to be of the nature of a graft-hybrid. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845 
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								I sincerely congratulate you on your success in making a graft-hybrid (206/1. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 Charles Darwin 1845 
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