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Hybrid : adj : produced by crossbreeding [syn: crossed, interbred, intercrossed]
(noun)
1: a word that is composed of parts from different languages
(e.g., `monolingual' has a Greek prefix and a Latin
root) [syn: loanblend, loan-blend]
2: a composite of mixed origin; "the vice-presidency is a
hybrid of administrative and legislative offices"
3: 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" [syn: crossbreed, cross]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Mule \Mule\ (m[=u]l), n. [F., a she-mule, L. mula, fem. of
mulus; cf. Gr. my`klos, mychlo`s. Cf. AS. m[=u]l, fr. L.
mulus. Cf. Mulatto.]
1. (Zo["o]l.) AHybrid : animal; specifically, one generated
between an ass and a mare, sometimes a horse and a
she-ass. See Hinny.
Note: Mules are much used as draught animals. They are hardy,
and proverbial for stubbornness.
2. (Bot.) A plant or vegetable produced by impregnating the
pistil of one species with the pollen or fecundating dust
of another; -- called also hybrid.
3. A very stubborn person.
4. A machine, used in factories, for spinning cotton, wool,
etc., into yarn or thread and winding it into cops; --
called also jenny and mule-jenny.
Mule armadillo (Zo["o]l.), a long-eared armadillo (Tatusia
hybrida), native of Buenos Aires; -- called also mulita.
See Illust. under Armadillo.
Mule deer (Zo["o]l.), a large deer ({Cervus, or Cariacus,
macrotis) of the Western United States. The name refers
to its long ears.
Mule pulley (Mach.), an idle pulley for guiding a belt
which transmits motion between shafts that are not
parallel.
Mule twist, cotton yarn in cops, as spun on a mule; -- in
distinction from yarn spun on a throstle frame.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Hybrid : \Hy"brid\, n. (Philol.)
A word composed of elements which belong to different
languages.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Hybrid : \Hy"brid\, n. [L. hybrida, hibrida, prob. allied to Gr. ?
wantonness (as if unbridled, lawless, unnatural), perh. akin
to Gr. "ype`r over, E. over: cf. F. hybride.] (Biol.)
The offspring of the union of two distinct species; an animal
or plant produced from the mixture of two species. See
Mongrel.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Hybrid : \Hy"brid\, a.
Produced from the mixture of two species; as, plants of
hybrid nature.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Hybrid :
A concurrent object-oriented language.
["Active Objects in Hybrid", O.M. Nierstrasz, SIGPLAN Notices
22(12):243-253 (OOPSLA '87) (Dec 1987)].
(1994-12-07)
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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Hybrid : Hybrid: The word "hybrid" has a number of different biomedical meanings.
In transmission genetics, a hybrid is the result of a cross between two genetically dissimilar parents. The offspring of unlike parents. If the parents are sufficiently dissimilar, the hybrid may be
sterile (for example, in the crossing of horse and donkey to produce a mule).
In cell genetics, a hybrid cell is one that contains components from one or more genomes (other than zygotes and their derivatives). Hybrid cells may be formed by several techniques including cell
fusion, the fusion of two or more cells.
In molecular genetics, a hybrid DNA molecule is a DNA molecule with strands of different origin.
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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