VERB | contact | hybridize, crossbreed, cross, hybridise, interbreed | breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties |
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Sounds | hhay'brahday.z | |
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Rhymes | actualize ... womanize: 266 rhymes with ayz... |
Meaning | Breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
Synonyms | crossbreed, cross, hybridise, interbreed | |
Narrower | backcross | mate a hybrid of the first generation with one of its parents |
Broader | breed | Cause to procreate (animals) |
Spanish | cruzar, hibridizar | |
Nouns | hybrid | (genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar / dissimilar parents or stock |
hybrid | a composite of mixed origin | |
hybridization, hybridizing | (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids |
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