Definition of Hybridism

1. n. The state or quality of being hybrid.

Definition of Hybridism

1. Noun. the state of being hybrid ¹

2. Noun. the production of hybrids by cross-breeding ¹

3. Noun. (linguistics) the formation of a word from elements of different languages ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hybridism

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Hybridism

1. The state of being hybrid. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hybridism

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hybrid vehicle
hybrid vehicles
hybrid vigor
hybrid vigour
hybrid warfare
hybrid wave function
hybrid wave functions
hybridisation
hybridisation stringency
hybridisations
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hybridism (current term)
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hybridizer
hybridizers
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Literary usage of Hybridism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The English Language by Robert Gordon Latham (1855)
"hybridism is a term derived from hybrid-a, a mongrel; a Latin word of ... To add them to words of other than of Latin origin is to be guilty of hybridism. ..."

2. The Natural History of Igneous Rocks by Alfred Harker (1909)
"hybridism in plutonic complexes.—hybridism in composite sills and dykes. ... hybridism as a factor in petrogenesis. Commingling of Two Magmas. ..."

3. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (1909)
"CHAPTER IX hybridism Distinction between the sterility of first crosses and of hybrids- Sterility various in degree, not universal, affected by close ..."

4. The Spiritual Magazine (1875)
"The questions of heredity and hybridism have been almost exhaustively dealt with by Mr. Darwin and his followers. We cannot say that we think Serjeant Cox's ..."

5. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1892)
"hybridism, AND A DESCRIPTION OF A HYBRID BETWEEN ANAS ... THE OCCURRENCE of hybridism among birds in a state of nature in certain groups is not infrequent, ..."

6. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1906)
"hybridism IN THE GENUS VIOLA,— II. EZRA BRAINERD. ... hybridism AMONG EUROPEAN VIOLETS. It is interesting to note that in recent years a similar tendency to ..."

7. A Hand-book of the English Language: For the Use of Students of the by Robert Gordon Latham (1860)
"To add them to words not of Greek origin is to be guilty of hybridism. Hence, witticism is objection* able. The terminations -ble (as in penetrable), ..."

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