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Definition of Hybrids
1. hybrid [n] - See also: hybrid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hybrids
Literary usage of Hybrids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (1909)
"Now hybrids in the first generation are descended from species, (excluding those
long-cultivated) which have not had their reproductive systems in any way ..."
2. Genetic Studies on a Cavy Species Cross by John Adolph Detlefsen (1914)
"FERTILITY OF PARENT SPECIES AND hybrids. mating them to the tame guinea-pigs we
should expect them to breed true to fertility on this hypothesis. ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"Wallace, on the other hand, cites from Quatrefages the case of hybrids between the
... He also states that hybrids between the sheep ana goat have a limited ..."
4. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"In connection with the artificial production of hybrids, the phenomenon of 'xenia'
has ... Among animals, much less experimentation in producing hybrids for ..."
5. The Journal of Heredity by American Genetic Association (1920)
"Partial or entire sterility of such hybrids is the rule. The \% fertility in the
nineteen natural hybrids here reported, and especially the 5% fertility in ..."
6. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun, F. W. Oliver (1895)
"Taken in relation to the number of species, the hybrids belonging to the plants
last mentioned are no less numerous than those of Willows, and it appears, ..."
7. Lectures on Plant Physiology by Ludwig Jost (1907)
"No general rule can be laid down as to the appearance of the hybrid. Many interspecific
hybrids show a structure exactly intermediate between that of the ..."
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