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Definition of Hybridise
1. Verb. Breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties. "These species do not interbreed"
Generic synonyms: Breed
Specialized synonyms: Backcross
Derivative terms: Cross, Cross, Crossing, Crossbreed, Hybridisation, Hybrid, Hybrid, Hybridization, Hybridizing, Interbreeding, Interbreeding
Definition of Hybridise
1. Verb. (British) (alternative spelling of hybridize) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hybridise
Literary usage of Hybridise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ladies' Companion to the Flower Garden: Being an Alphabetical by Jane (Webb) Loudon (1865)
"—Perhaps no plants hybridise more freely than the different species of this ...
Some cultivator was then induced to try to hybridise one of the shrubby ..."
2. Dialogue on Risk Assessment of Transgenic Plants: Scientific, Technological edited by Johannes Wirz (1997)
"What can hybridise in the field under natural conditions is nearly fully documented
in these herbaria. And there are hundreds of thousands of sheets ..."
3. Strasburger's Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger, Hans Fitting (1921)
"... are difficult to hybridise. Hybridisation of closely related species may
frequently fail when more distant species can be crossed. ..."
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