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HYBRIDISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hybridise mean? 

HYBRIDISE (verb)
  The verb HYBRIDISE has 1 sense:

1. breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varietiesplay

  Familiarity information: HYBRIDISE used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HYBRIDISE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they hybridise  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it hybridises  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: hybridised  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: hybridised  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: hybridising  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

cross; crossbreed; hybridise; hybridize; interbreed

Context example:

these species do not interbreed

Hypernyms (to "hybridise" is one way to...):

breed (cause to procreate (animals))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hybridise"):

backcross (mate a hybrid of the first generation with one of its parents)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

hybridisation ((genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids)


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