hybridismn.
/ˈhʌɪbrɪdɪz(ə)m//ˈhɪbrɪdɪz(ə)m/ 1.
a. The fact or condition of being hybrid; the hybrid condition in plants or animals as a biological phenomenon.
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hybridity1837
hybridism1846
paragenesis1890
1846 in J. E. Worcester Universal Dict. Eng. Lang.
1857 C. Darwin in Life & Lett. (1887) II. 110 I have now been three whole months on one chapter [of ‘Origin of Species’] on Hybridism.
1862 T. H. Huxley On Knowl. Causes Phenomena Org. Nature 147 Here are the phenomena of Hybridism staring you in the face.
b. The production of hybrids; cross-breeding. Also: reproduction between different racial or ethnic groups resulting in the birth of mixed-race children.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [noun] > cross-breeding or hybridism
nick1824
crossing1851
hybridization1851
hybridism1854
intercrossing1859
hybridation1879
outcrossing1890
paragenesis1890
outbreeding1901
back-crossing1904
vicinism1905
monohybridism1907
cross-breeding1932
1854 J. Lindley School Bot. (new ed.) x. 169 Recourse is had to hybridism, when a wild insipid fruit may be possibly improved.
1863 E. Dicey Six Months in Federal States I. 208 It is, in fact, the instinct of self-preservation, which revolts at hybridism.
1883 H. Drummond Nat. Law in Spiritual World (1884) Pref. 13 Inappropriate hybridism is checked by the Law of Sterility.
2. Philology. The formation of a word from elements belonging to different languages.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > word-formation > [noun] > formation from foreign word(s)
hybridism1862
paronymization1885
paronymy1885
meroparonymy1889
1862 R. G. Latham Eng. Lang. (ed. 5) 480 In seamstress and songstress we find instances of hybridism.
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