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hybrid

A hybrid is an offspring of two different organisms of different species or varieties. A mule is a hybrid of a donkey and a horse. A hybrid is a something that is made by two different elements.

hybrid

(= cross) (genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species a mule is a cross between a horse and a donkey a composite of mixed origin the vice-presidency is a hybrid of administrative and legislative offices produced by crossbreeding (= loanblend) a word that is composed of parts from different languages (e.g., 'monolingual' has a Greek prefix and a Latin root)

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Simple sentences

Jostaberries are a hybrid cross of blackcurrant with gooseberry, and they're at least as tasty as they're unknown.
I bought a hybrid.
This plant is a hybrid.
Tom bought a hybrid car.
The loganberry, which is a hybrid of a blackberry and a raspberry, was accidentally created in the late nineteenth century by an American horticulturist.
This is a hybrid.

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This is really our new hybrid fungus.
My hybrid.
No, not a hybrid.
This is a hybrid. This is a cross bluegrass,.Kentucky bluegrass, featherbed bench,.and northern California sinsemilla.
A dog is a parasite hybrid. I mean, he chases cars.
And if I felt like catching such a hybrid, because that's what'd bring me pleasure?
Not your dream race of hybrid clones. that can be deactivated with the touch of a button.
The baby's a hybrid of the two. -Right.
I bet this hybrid is the bacterium that killed him.
We discovered a hybrid bacterium. It killed the baby reptile.
It's a hybrid species.
Since the zebra is such a beautiful animal. you'd have thought that. That man would have invented a fanciful hybrid, wouldn't you?
I advised you to get a car, not such a hybrid!
This is a hybrid.
Quadrotriticale is a high-yield grain, a four-lobed hybrid of wheat and rye.
H is for hybrid.
It's taken nearly ten years to perfect this hybrid.
At the Chicago World's Fair they had some hybrid turnips that weighed six pounds.
The Snake-Crane Hybrid.
They're what you call a hybrid apple.
It looked like a hybrid of rook and seagull.
A dog is a parasite hybrid.
You sell it to the Japanese just as I find a hybrid.
The baby's a hybrid of the two.
We discovered a hybrid bacterium.
It's a Hybrid Jantilius, an exceptionally rare variety.
Of those bygone days. he had no more than a dark sense of impurity. He seemed to have ruined his own innocence. to a confusing, hybrid condition, which he had yet to see clearly..
My new hybrid.
This new hybrid of abstract thought and everyday experience blossomed into science.
It's really a sort of hybrid.
Since the zebra is such a beautiful animal, you'd have thought, perhaps, that man would have invented a fanciful hybrid. Wouldn't you?
Also, outright title to my prizewinning hybrid rose bushes.
No matter how perfect they are in the field, Dr. Forrest, there's no such thing as a completely stable hybrid.
I'm growing Bajoran katterpods to see which hybrid yields the biggest root.
It's an alien-human hybrid, isn't it?

News and current affairs

The advantages of this hybrid status include the security and predictability of America's rule of law, eligibility for federal transfer payments, and favorable tax treatment.
New hybrid automobiles, pioneered by Toyota, use both gasoline and electric power to boost gasoline efficiency by approximately two-fold.
The changeover of the world's vehicles to hybrid and other efficient technologies will take decades, not years.
Gasoline mileage is sufficiently enhanced to make the hybrid commercially viable, and gasoline-saving vehicles will become even more commercially viable when consumers are taxed for the carbon dioxide they emit from their vehicles.
But that is probably far too revolutionary for an EU that took 50 years to fashion today's unsatisfactorily hybrid decision-making structures.
In many ways, IS is a hybrid: part movement, part network, and part organization.
In such hybrid wars, conventional and irregular forces, combatants and civilians, and physical destruction and information warfare become thoroughly intertwined.
These hybrid wars are fought using a wide variety of weapons - not all of which have firepower.
In hybrid warfare, conventional and unconventional forces, combatants and civilians, physical destruction and information manipulation become thoroughly intertwined.
Automobiles can be engineered for much greater mileage through hybrid technology combining battery power and gasoline.
A hybrid, caretaker government, including military and civilian elements, may be the best way forward. To slow the clock is not to stop it, however.
Consider the vast investment and entrepreneurial activity that China has elicited through a hybrid system of property rights and a legal regime that is as far as imaginable from the Anglo-American system.
Similarly, the modern world has always contained numerous economic systems - many varieties of capitalism, planned and guided economies, and a host of hybrid economic systems not easily classified.
Subsequent negotiations led to a compromise agreement in November for a hybrid AU-UN force that would deploy in three stages.
The package also counts on investments in hybrid vehicle technologies.
Those subsidies are a hidden form of government spending on everything from home mortgages and health insurance to the purchase of hybrid cars and residential solar panels.
Understanding any country's democratic prospects must begin with a definition of democracy, which is a hybrid form of government, a fusion of two different political traditions.
New UN-backed international and hybrid tribunals were created to bring to account perpetrators of atrocities in the Balkans, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, and Cambodia.
The Toyota Prius, a hybrid-electric vehicle first introduced in Japan in 1997, marked an initial breakthrough.
By connecting a small generator and rechargeable battery to the braking system of a standard car, the hybrid augments the normal engine with a battery-powered motor.
Much more innovation is on the way, led by General Motors' plug-in hybrid vehicle, the Chevy Volt, at the end of 2010.
The regulatory hybrid securities would have all the advantages of debt in normal times.
The regulatory hybrid securities are thus designed to deal with the very source of systemic instability that the current crisis highlighted.
The proposal also specifies a distinct role for the government in encouraging the issuance of regulatory hybrid securities, because banks would not issue them otherwise.
These journalists' self-interested prejudice against a medium in which they are not the gatekeepers prevents them from conceding that Assange is a publisher, rather than some sort of hybrid terrorist blogger.
The first is energy conservation through more fuel-efficient vehicles. New hybrid automobiles, pioneered by Toyota, use both gasoline and electric power to boost gasoline efficiency by approximately two-fold.
The problem is timing. The changeover of the world's vehicles to hybrid and other efficient technologies will take decades, not years.

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