Composed of two different elements; hybrid.

= B.

Designating or relating to an animal or plant produced by the crossing of different breeds, varieties, etc. Cf. sense A. 3.

= hybrid, adj.; of hybrid character.

A hybrid. An (esp. interspecific) hybrid plant. Frequently attributive. Now rare.

Produced by the inter-breeding of two different species or varieties of animals or plants; mongrel, cross-bred, half-bred.

Bred from parents of different species or varieties; hybrid, mongrel. (Also absol. as n.) Also, (designating) wool from cross-bred sheep.

Capable of hybridization.

Designating or relating to hybrid organisms that display impaired fertility (spec. lower fertility when crossed with each other than when backcrossed…

Obtained by hybridization; hybrid (in various senses).

Of animals and plants: Cross-bred; hybrid.

That is heterozygous for a single trait or gene; (also) designating, relating to, or characteristic of a cross between two genetically identical…

Bred from parents that are unrelated or not closely related; not inbred.

Formed or obtained from (individuals of) different genera.

Of, relating to, or characteristic of a polyhybrid, or a cross resulting in a polyhybrid.

Biology. Of evolution: characterized by repeated hybridization between related lineages (such as occurs esp. in plants), so that a diagram of…

Involving or pertaining to descent from three different racial or ethnic groups which have reproduced together.

Occurring or existing between one strain (strain, n.1 7) and another; formed by crossing two strains.