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HYBRIDISE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties

Example:

these species do not interbreed

Synonyms:

cross; crossbreed; hybridise; hybridize; interbreed

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

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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