hybrid
pronunciation
How to pronounce hybrid in British English:
UK [ˈhaɪbrɪd]
How to pronounce hybrid in American English:
US [ˈhaɪbrɪd]
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- Noun:
- a word that is composed of parts from different languages (e.g., `monolingual' has a Greek prefix and a Latin root)
- a composite of mixed origin
- an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species
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- Adjective:
- produced by crossbreeding
Word Origin
- hybrid (n.)
- c. 1600, from Latin hybrida, variant of ibrida "mongrel," specifically "offspring of a tame sow and a wild boar," of unknown origin but probably from Greek and somehow related to hubris. A rare word before c. 1850. The adjective is attested from 1716.
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Example
- 1. Is the red wolf a true wolf or a wolf / coyote hybrid ?
- 2. Again , the extraordinary linguistic hybrid : the " comfort levels " cheek by jowl with the jocular yet baffling reference to hair .
- 3. Inevitably , he writes , it " eats its young and gives birth to a new hybrid creature " .
- 4. It is a hybrid of human , bird and swine flu viruses , and by 1999 it is the dominant flu strain in us pigs .
- 5. The showy coral blooms of this girard hybrid may attract the first hummingbird visitors of the season to your garden .